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China ' s Tsinghua to build $ 30 billion chip factory
Cisco LaunchPad to accelerate Modi ' s Startup India initiative
element14 extends ' Change the World ' design competition deadline
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China ' s Tsinghua to build $ 30 billion chip factory

Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd . plans to build
That will help China “ leapfrog
a $ 30 billion memory-chip production
development in mainstream storage ,”
complex that will become China ’ s
according to a statement carried on
largest , even as U . S . officials raise
the company ’ s website .
concerns about the country ’ s intention of dominating an industry crucial to the computing and smartphone markets .
Tsinghua , the investment and technology affiliate of the university attended by Chinese President Xi
Jinping , is leading a $ 150 billion
The arm of the government-linked
charge to develop a world-class
Tsinghua group intends to erect a
semiconductor industry and reduce
American players and even national
semiconductor complex around an
the country ’ s reliance on foreign
security . Intel Corp ., Micron
envisioned plant in the eastern city of
technology . The U . S . however is
Technology Inc . and Qualcomm Inc .
Nanjing that will have an initial
concerned that a dominant China
are among the biggest U . S . suppliers
monthly capacity of 100,000 wafers .
could threaten the competitiveness of
of chips to China .

Cisco LaunchPad to accelerate Modi ' s Startup India initiative

element14 extends ' Change the World ' design competition deadline

‘ LaunchPad ’, an open innovation
accelerator for startups to develop
initiative to accelerate startups and
digital solutions that reach a global
support growth among India ’ s young
market ,” added KS Vishwanathan , Vice
developer community .
President , Nasscom , Indian IT industry
For this , Cisco will provide a space at
trade body .
its Bangalore campus with access to a
India is the youngest startup and
suite of Cisco technologies and free
developer nation in the world and is
grants to startups chosen to work at
projected to have the world ’ s largest
its campus .
number of developers by 2018 .
“ Innovation and investment are the
Through ‘ LaunchPad ’, the startups will
In a fillip to Prime Minister Narendra
Modi ’ s ‘ Start-up India ’ campaign , USbased global technology company
Cisco on Wednesday unveiled
key drivers of the Indian economy , leading to jobs , growth and long-term prosperity . India is a hotbed of entrepreneurial talent and Cisco
LaunchPad will be a tremendous
get an opportunity to work on solving business relevant problems by catering to use cases that are identified and validated by Cisco goto-market teams .
element14 has extended the deadline
products they would use , and 10
of its global competition to discover
finalists will receive their chosen
how engineers can ‘ Change the
products to the value of $ 1,000 to
World ’ with their design ideas . Entries
make their idea real .
will now be accepted on the competition website until 28th
February 2017 .
“ Once you have an idea , entering is really simple and only takes a few minutes ,” said Steve Carr , Head of
uses element14 products to make a
The competition asks designers to
Marketing for Premier Farnell . “ With
positive impact the world through
think of creative ways they could use
over 600,000 products to choose
technology .
$ 1,000 of products from element14 to make a positive impact . Entrants provide a short explanation of their ideas , together with a list of the
from , we ’ ve already seen some great ideas that use technology to have a positive impact .”
Entrants simply need an idea that
Engineers looking to enter the competition can find more information at www . element14changetheworld . com
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