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Combination of brains and hands
si Team
Thursday, March 31, 2005
India, a recognized software powerhouse of the world, and Taiwan, a low cost and quality hardware manufacturing are joining hands for making chips. What happens when two forces collide? An unrivalled, envied and lethal combination of brains and hands.

That was the message passed on when a Taiwanese delegation comprising three leading silicon foundries: Taiwan Semi-conductors Manu-facturing Company, United Microelectronics Corp. and Chartered Semiconductors visited Bangalore early this month to explore possibility of combining India’s software and chip design expertise with Taiwan’s manufacturing prowess. This partnership would facilitate large-scale development of System on Chips (SoC) for next generation digital products and consumer electronics.

Taiwan SoC President, Steve Lin, said the Taiwanese industry was looking to project itself as a base for System on Chip design and offer its customers a single country solution for all their chip needs. Taiwanese and Indian firms will collaborate on reusable protocol stacks for wireless and broadband com-munication, multimedia and embedded software for digital consumer SoC and reusable silicon IPs. The semiconductor industry is the single most important engine of growth for Taiwan’s economy.

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