How Intel Is Spreading Out In India ?

Intel is funding futuristic research , trhough the Tenet group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, which plans to deliver low cost connectivity and internet access to India’s rural masses. Intel is funding the Tenet group’s research in the digitisation of radio. Intel is in India from late 1990s but in the last 3 years it has show a great interest in Indian operations and trying every bit to enter into symbiotic relationship with India. Companies like HP & Texas instrument also taking lots of effort to build a mutually beneficial eco-system between them and India but Intel with the size and depth of it's initatives is surely taking the lead. There was also a speculation recently that Intel is planning to set up a $45 million chip manufacturing unit in Chennai, but it was denied by Intel.

A prime example of funding futuristic research at an academic institution is the Tenet group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, which is well on the way to delivering low cost connectivity and internet access to India’s rural masses. Intel is funding the Tenet group’s research in the digitisation of radio.



A fundamental shift is taking place in how radios are built. In the last four or five years, instead of using capacitors, resistors and inductors and building an analog radio, researchers are seeking to acquire the signal and immediately turn it into a digital signal and do everything in the digital domain through digital signal processing. That makes possible much smaller radios, which can be applied to many uses beyond the conventional.



IIT, Mumbai, in addition to having a VLSI design lab, is working on silicon emulation. Integrated chips, which are becoming more and more complicated, are all built as one piece of standard silicon.

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