Young Liu, the CEO of Foxconn, honored with Padma Bhushan
富士康董事長劉揚偉獲頒印度「帕德瑪布殊三等勳章」
The government of India announced on the occasion of the 75th Republic Day that Young Liu, the Chairman and CEO of Foxconn, a company based in Taiwan, will be receiving India’s third-highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan. This was a development that attracted a lot of attention for many reasons. Above all, Young Liu is the first Taiwanese national to receive the Padma Bhushan.
Although some analysts have connected this announcement to the strained relations between China and India, it is important to stress that this recognition is unrelated to China’s geopolitical dynamics. Notably, these viewpoints are mainly limited to some Indian experts and portals.
Foxconn has continuously increased its presence in India throughout the years. The India-Taipei Association emphasized that this recognition is an honor to Foxconn’s success story in India and highlights the country’s increasing prominence as a hub for electronics manufacturing.
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小編點評：富士康（Foxconn）首席執行官劉揚偉最近被授予印度第三高的文職獎勵「帕德瑪布殊三等勳章」，以表揚他的傑出貢獻。這項消息是在印度的第75個共和國日宣布的，這標誌著劉揚偉成為第一位獲得這一崇高榮譽的台灣人。官方表示，此項榮譽是因為富士康在印度的成功，突顯了該國作為電子製造中心的日益重要地位。
Samsung will begin making laptops in India
三星將在印度開始製造筆記型電腦
Samsung’s president and head of the company’s mobile experience (MX) business, T.M. Roh, stated in an interaction that the company will begin manufacturing laptops at its Noida factory this year. This move demonstrates how important India is becoming to the Korean giant, which views India as its second-largest manufacturing base.
Roh attributed Samsung’s growth in India to the government’s supportive policies. He did, however, point out that some facility optimizations were required due to the decrease in global demand in 2023.
India imposed import limits on servers, computers, tablets, and other devices in August of last year. By doing this, India’s dependence on imported IT gear was to be lessened, in keeping with production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes for consumer electronics such as tablets, laptops, and personal computers.
Mexico becomes the new hub for Indian IT operations
墨西哥成為印度IT業務的新樞紐
Customer experience management (CXM), which improves customer engagement across numerous touchpoints, has made Mexico the new hotspot. For more than ten years, TCS and Infosys have maintained a presence in Mexico. LTIMindtree just inaugurated a 100-seat facility in Mexico City. Two years ago, HCLTech, which began operations in Mexico 14 years ago, increased its presence in Guadalajara. In order to grow its present workforce of 2,400 employees nationwide, the company plans to hire 1,300 additional people over the next two years. A new engineering and sales center for GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group company, has opened in Mexico. Mexico City and Guadalajara are the locations of the centers.
The benefits of Mexico include its close proximity to the US and Canada as well as its cultural compatibility. Mexico has around 197,000 full-time equivalents (FTEs) in its global services talent pool, according to US IT research consultant Everest Group. The workforce speaks English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese with good multilingual abilities.
小編點評：此發展表明印度IT公司倚重墨西哥的優勢來提升客戶參與度並擴大業務。這一戰略舉措得益於墨西哥地理上鄰近美國和加拿大，以及文化上的相容性。墨西哥全球服務人才庫擁有約197,000全職人力，具備英語、西班牙語、法語和葡萄牙語等多種語言的多語稱職工作人員。
Krutrim – India’s first AI unicorn
Krutrim成為印度首間AI獨角獸
Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of Ola, launched the AI startup Krutrim, which recently announced that it has raised a $1 billion funding round. he startup, founded last year, is the fastest to become a unicorn in India, it claimed in a press statement. It added that it is the first AI startup in India to reach unicorn status.
The $50 million “first round” in Krutrim was headed by Matrix Partners India, which has previously supported Aggarwal’s other two firms, the EV startup Ola Electric and the ride-hailing platform Ola.
The Sanskrit word for “artificial,” Krutrim, is building a large language model that has been trained not only on English but also on regional Indian languages. According to the organisation, it intends to release a voice-activated conversational AI assistant that speaks and understands several Indian languages.
Govt to Launch Semiconductor Research Centre & Digital India futureLABS Soon: MoS IT
印度政府近期將建立半導體研究中心和Digital India futureLABS
The government would shortly establish the India Semiconductor Research Centre and launch Digital India futureLABS, according to Minister Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
The Minister declared that the India Semiconductor Research Centre will soon be established. It will act as a centre for semiconductor innovation across all spectrums, which will power systems of the future. Additionally, he stated that Digital India futureLABS, upcoming program, will soon be launched. Government laboratories, Indian startups, major businesses, and the electronics industry will all work together on this program. Along with automotive industrial platforms and tier 1 suppliers, it will concentrate on developing and designing systems for the future.
小編點評：印度正準備建立印度半導體研究中心，這是半導體創新的樞紐，旨在推動未來系統的發展，由拉吉夫·錢德拉塞卡爾部長宣布。與此同時，政府將啟動Digital India futureLABS，這是一個協作計畫，涉及政府實驗室、印度新創公司、大型企業和電子行業。該計畫將專注於未來系統的開發和設計，特別強調汽車工業平台和一級供應商的發展。這些舉措反映了對技術創新和國內協作努力的戰略推動。
Competition Comm clears Tata Electronics-Wistron deal
競爭委員會批准塔塔電子 – 緯創交易
According to a notification filed with the regulator, Tata Electronics intends to purchase all of the equity share capital of Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing (India) from SMS Infocomm (Singapore) Pvt Ltd (SMS Infocomm) and Wistron Hong Kong Ltd (Wistron HK).
The Wistron Group said in October of last year that it had reached a deal to sell the Tata Group a Bengaluru factory. The merger between Tata Electronics and Wistron has been approved by the regulator, according to a Tuesday update on the CCI website.
As announced last year, the board of Wistron approved the sale of Wistron InfoComm Manufacturing (India) to Tata Electronics, a division of the Tata Group, for USD 125 million.
小編點評：這項交易已在一年前宣布，因此這只是程序性的步驟。監管機構的批准將為塔塔集團旗下的塔塔電子與緯創的成功合併鋪路。
AI computers will power the Indian PC market’s next replacement cycle
AI電腦將推動印度個人電腦市場的下一個更新週期
Asus plans to launch an AI-powered consumer notebook in India. India ranks third in the world for PC sales, although there is a significant gap between India and China. Asus is expanding its domestic production in India in the wake of the government’s 2023 implementation of the updated production-linked incentive (PLI) plan for IT products.
AI PCs are gaining popularity mostly because of Microsoft’s strong push for these next-generation laptops and desktops. In the next five to ten years, AI PCs will be considered cutting edge, according to Arnold Su, vice president of consumer and gaming PCs at Asus India.
According to the Su, Asus is currently the second-biggest brand for consumer and gaming PCs after HP in India, where entry-level PC market share is only 5%, compared to 40% in Indonesia, which he claims has a comparable GDP.
小編點評：這篇有趣的文章出現在印度新聞中，從台灣的經驗豐富的專家ASUS印度副總Arnold Su的角度，提供印度電腦市場的見解。