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India's growing might in global semicon

India is fast becoming the world's destination, and increasingly the source too, for semiconductors

Pradeep Chakraborty

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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BANGALORE, INDIA & DUBAI, UAE: It is no longer a secret that India is fast becoming the world's destination, and increasingly the source too, for semiconductors. India also shows the most rapid growth potential among the BRIC countries.

S. Janakiraman, Chairman, India Semiconductor Association

S. Janakiraman, Chairman, India Semiconductor Association

Speaking at the recently held International Electronics Forum (IEF) 2008 at Dubai, organized by Future Horizons, S. Janakiraman, the outgoing Chairman - India Semiconductor Association*, and President & CEO – R&D services, MindTree Ltd, touched upon India's growing presence in the global semiconductor industry, as well as being the third largest country in terms of purchasing power parity.

Not surprisingly, the current market drivers in India happen to be mobile phone services, IT services/BPO, automobiles and IT hardware. Add to these are the facts that India is very strong in design tools, system architecture and VLSI design, has quite strong IP protection laws, and is quite strong in concept/innovation as far as the semiconductor industry is concerned.

Testing and packaging are currently in the nascent stage. India has also announced a fab policy. While India lacks a semicon wafer fab, as of now, there have been several announcements regarding solar fabs by leading firms such as Videocon, Reliance and Moser Baer, etc.

Growing electronics consumption
In the electronics manufacturing domain, India's strength lies in hardware, embedded software and industrial design, OEMs, component distribution (includes semiconductor and box build), and end user/distribution channel, as well as more than moderate strength in product design and manufacturing (ODM, EMS).

India is likely to witness $363 billion of equipment consumption and $155 billion of domestic production by 2015. India's electronic equipment consumption in 2005 was 1.8 percent. It is likely to grow to 5.5 percent in 2010 and 11 percent in 2015, as per a joint study conducted by the ISA and Frost & Sullivan.

The Indian semiconductor TAM (total available market) revenue is likely to grow by 2.5 times while the TM (total market) is likely to double revenues in 2009. The TAM is likely to grow at a CAGR of 35.8 percent and the TM is likely to grow at a CAGR of 26.7 percent, respectively, during the period 2006-09.

Telecom, and IT and office automation are currently the leading segments in both TM and TAM. Consumer segment occupies the third fastest growing area in the TM, while the industrial segment is the third fastest growing area in the TAM.

The major semiconductor categories include microprocessors, analog, memory, discrete and ASIC, while the major end use products include mobile handsets, BTS, desktops, notebooks, set-top boxes and CRT TVs.

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Solar Silicon Projects said on 7/1/2008 2:07:37 PM:
We are planning for setting up a polysilicon plant and silicon ingot and wafer plant in India. Anybody interested may please visit our site (polysilicon.in) or mail us solar@polysilicon.in

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Jason said on 6/11/2008 2:21:28 AM:
Brilliant piece!

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