CPU/Mobo India's first fab facility in Hyderabad

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India's first advanced semiconductor fab facility would come up in Hyderabad, with Andhra Pradesh overtaking close contenders Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the race.

"It is Andhra Pradesh which has proved to be the winner," Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Dayanidhi Maran told a 'Vision Summit' of the India Semiconductor Association and reporters in Hyderabad.

SemIndia, a consortium of overseas Indians, had said in November that it planned to invest $3 billion in the semiconductor manufacturing facility in the country with technology from the US-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc but had not announced the location.

Under an agreement signed in December last year, AMD has agreed to transfer the microprocessor technology to SemIndia, Maran said. In the first stage, SemIndia planned to invest $1 billion on setting up the assembly-test-mark-pack facility and then the 'fab city,' he said.

He said Andhra Pradesh government had offered 1,200 acres of land for the facility, besides meeting the 'wish list' of SemIndia which included abundant water supply and electricity.

Asked what tilted the decision in favour of Andhra Pradesh, Maran made it clear, "I had no role to play in this," adding that the Union government was only a facilitator.
 
No US-based corpations want to move to Bangalore anymore - there's a lot of bad publicity in the US due to the seemingly bad infrastructure here. After Infosys did a press release on it's decision to completely stop expanding in Bangalore and choosing Chennai instead, others will follow suit.

Hyderabad deserves this because their government is doing everything they can to make sure the infrastructure is the best in India - I started seeing this happen back in 2000 and it looks like things have only gotten better since then.
 
RiO said:
No US-based corpations want to move to Bangalore anymore - there's a lot of bad publicity in the US due to the seemingly bad infrastructure here. After Infosys did a press release on it's decision to completely stop expanding in Bangalore and choosing Chennai instead, others will follow suit.

Hyderabad deserves this because their government is doing everything they can to make sure the infrastructure is the best in India - I started seeing this happen back in 2000 and it looks like things have only gotten better since then.
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Dead right...Bangalore's infrastructure suckz...Only prob in Chennai is majority of the bigwigs high up are very traditional and resent what they call "an invasion"....Otherwise the infraS is good...
Hyderabad I feel would be better for a chip manufacturing unit because of the climatic conditions for one....:P We don't need another tsunami do we...::bleh: ??
 
And personally, I doubt if Bangalore will get any better. The so called "leaders" are more interested in holding power thn the development of the state.
 
Hyderabad infrastructure is fantastic. I was shocked to see how wide the roads around hitec city have become the last time i visited hyd in jan :P. Bangalore roads and traffic suck and the government sucks even more.
 
CPUs are already the same/lower price than in US other than the high end one where the greedy dealers make a killing. So dont expect lower CPU prices. Then again they never said they are gonna make CPUs in the fab :P
 
It is not meant to be a full fledged CPU fab. But I think it may lead to eventual lowering of prices in the embedded sector.
 
finally!! although it will not directly lower the cost of cpu here, its al least a start. hopefully intel or amd will set up a fab soon
 
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Hyderabad infrastructure is fantastic. I was shocked to see how wide the roads around hitec city have become the last time i visited hyd in jan :P. .
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all the development around hitec was done by l & t right ?
 
Did they ever fix that flyover? They made one, I hear, which was suspended in the air, because apparently they had never planned on where to put the ramps.
 
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