Key Highlights of the General Budget 2025: Focus on GCCs, AI, and Start-up Entrepreneurship
AMD Makes AI PowerPlay with $665Mn Silo AI Acquisition
On July 10, 2024, AMD made waves in the AI industry with the announced acquisition of Silo AI, Europe’s largest private AI research lab, for $665 million.
MWC Barcelona 2024: Seven Key Themes To Watch Out For
Our hyper-connected world grapples with rapid technological advancements, lagging regulations, and the need for sustainability. Bold leadership embracing tech-driven transformation is crucial for navigating these complexities, unlocking growth, outpacing competitors, and securing future value. The MWC Barcelona 2024 is back, and it is anticipated to be bigger than ever. With AI, 6G, sustainability likely to …
The Battle for Smartphone Supremacy: Apple Surges, Samsung Seeks AI Edge
The global smartphone landscape has witnessed a fascinating shift in 2023, with Apple reclaiming the top spot from Samsung for the first time. This shift at the top is reflective of the hypercompetitive dynamics at play in the global smartphone market – across both the premium to the value for money- end of the smartphone …
Six Solid Takeaways from India’s Union Budget 2023-24
The forward-looking Union Budget for 2023-24, presented by Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Finance Minister, keeps the focus on leveraging and accelerating technology adoption for enabling and empowering India’s techade as well as India@100. Enabling India-specific 5G Use Cases.Setting-up 100 5G labs in engineering institutions will provide the much-needed impetus to realize the new opportunities that 5G …
Talking Metaverse with Hugo Swart, Qualcomm
The convergence of rapid technological advances and the pandemic years have contributed to a quantum leap in interest in, and the development of the metaverse. Extended Reality (XR), an umbrella term that encapsulates Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), represents the gateway to metaverse, and to realize tremendous breakthrough transformations in …
The new unified, comprehensive Qualcomm AI Stack for the Connected Intelligent Edge
Qualcomm’s new AI Stack enables OEMs and developers to utilize a unified, comprehensive AI software capabilities. By doing so, OEMs and developers can now develop and leverage the full AI potential of Qualcomm’s Connected Intelligent Edge products, including, smartphones, IoT, automotive, XR, Cloud and Mobile PC. At Qualcomm, AI is being strategically viewed as a …
India’s Rise as a Deep Tech Start-up Nation
The year 2021 could well be the year of Deep Tech. Over the course of the pandemic, the visibility and impact of Deep Tech have become much more accessible to a wider audience. Whether it be the first ever mRNA-based vaccine to combat the pandemic, or the space race, Deep Tech has secured mainstream interest. …
5G smartphone sales up despite unavailability of networks
Indian consumers are increasingly adopting 5G smartphones even before rollout of the next-gen mobile broadband technology in the country. Research firm, International Data Corporation (IDC), has estimated the share of 5G-enabled phones, out of total smartphone sales, will touch 20-25% this year. As Chinese smartphone brands, Oppo and Realme aggressively push their 5G portfolio in …
On 25 Years of Samsung in India
The 1990s were seminal for India. India broke its shackles and moved ahead with liberalization. Overnight, India transformed from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market. Consumers became more aware, more aspirational, and demanded quality and value. Encouraged by the Government’s liberal policy regime, players, such as Samsung came into India. Samsung recently completed 25 …