Tuesday, March 11, 2014: In a global consensus of building trade and industry ties, many semiconductor companies like Analog Devices India (ADI) and Texas Instruments have reportedly helped more than a dozen small Indian companies in the last year. With companies such as ARM and Sandisk are in on-going talks to facilitate big international contract wins by their Indian partners.
According to a TOI report, Somshubhro Pal Choudhury, the managing director of Analog Devices India said, “Small companies, especially original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), may not have the capability to design products and to connect with global clients. Over the last six months alone, ADI has helped 3-4 companies connect with design houses and customise solutions for global clients.” Analog Devices claims to have nearly 1,000 Indian customers with global analog market share worth $45 to 50 billion.
As per this report, ADI ,recently, helped Mindteck win a project to connect over a million mirrors in the Nevada desert, to tap solar energy to drive a power generating turbine. Mindteck’s revenue was over $1 million from the project. “Each of these mirrors has sensors which need to communicate wirelessly to tower stations at frequent intervals. We developed a solution based on an ADI product for this. They helped us with the reference designs, training the personnel and for demonstrating its usage,” said Surjit Lahiri, vice-president (product engineering) at Mindteck.
While, Texas Instruments, one of the biggest semiconductor companies to set up a centre in India, collaborated with Bangalore-based Ittiam. The cooperation is to develop broadcast design and video communication solutions, which yielded Ittiam contracts.
Furthermore, ARM, whose processors are found in more than 95 per cent of smartphones that are used today, and flash storage maker Sandisk; both the companies are in talks with smaller Indian companies to develop solutions that use their semiconductor products.
