TI bullish on semiconductors

By agencies   |   Monday, 09 January 2006, 20:30 IST
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HYDERABAD: Texas Instruments India (TI India) is bullish on the growing Indian market for semiconductors driven by areas of digital entertainment, broadband, mobile phones, telecom sector along with other technology applications. TI India’s Managing Director, Biswadeep Mitra said, “India was witnessing an unprecedented growth in mobile phones and in December alone about 3.2 million phone connections were added as per reports from the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). A growth of this nature will possibly ensure that India achieves its targeted growth of 200 million phones by 2007.” This growth, coupled with the plans to locate mobile phone manufacturing units in India, has opened up new opportunities for an integrated solutions provider like TI, Mitra said. The areas include mobile handset manufacturing companies, measurement equipment for end telecom products, convergence of technologies, wireless broadband applications and digital media projection systems and televisions among others. Refraining to comment on the numbers, Mitra said that at present the company has about 1,300 employees. The challenge is to ensure that the products created match up to global standards. A fault in nanometre technology could potentially cost upwards of $2 million, he added. Citing the emergence of semiconductor segment in India, the industry was working on a plan to ensure that by 2010 there would be a steady flow of trained manpower that can meet industry requirement. He said, “Two clear trends have emerged in the semiconductor industry. One relates to the concept of single chip that packs a lot of features and 90 nanometre technologies. As a part of TI solution, we have developed a single chip for mobile application that helps stream digital video. Phone packed with these chips would be out later this year.”