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5 IITs, over 200 researchers are working on a 5G project that may change internet in India

Devina Sengupta and Sreeradha D Basu | ET Bureau | Updated: Feb 17, 2018, 12:40PM IST

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Professors at the IITs said this will be the world’s largest test-bed for 5G technology.

More than 200 researchers, students and teachers from across five Indian Institutes of Technology have joined forces over a Rs 300-crore project to develop 5G technology and its use cases in India.

The department of telecommunications-backed project, being billed as the biggest collaborative effort between these institutes, will aim to develop a comprehensive test-bed for 5G that can be used by technology companies, telecom operators, academics and startups for R&D purposes and developing 5G products and solutions.

“This is the biggest project where IITs are working together and more than 200 people will work as a team,” said Abhay Karandikar, dean (faculty) at IIT Bombay. His 30-40-member-strong team will work on technologies such as software defined networking, network function virtualisation and core network.

Professors at the IITs said this will be the world’s largest test-bed for 5G, with the funds being used to procure equipment and hire top-notch researchers to usher in the next game-changer in the telecommunications industry.

The 5G technology, which will weave in artificial intelligence and big data analytics at high speeds, will have applications in defence, agriculture, healthcare and the automobile sector, among others, improving the lives of millions of people. It also promises to deliver data speeds at up to 10 times that of 4G.

Working alongside the participating IITs at Madras, Hyderabad, Bombay, Delhi and Kanpur will be the Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore, Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (ceWIT), and Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER), officials and professors said.

The project has the government’s full backing—Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said in his Budget speech that the telecom department will support a 5G technology test-bed that will be anchored out of IIT Madras and whose roll could be expected in 2020, in line with global roll outs.

Last year, the government had earmarked Rs 500 crore for R&D to roll out 5G in India, the corpus from which the project will be funded.

“This is for the first time that such a large end-to-end test-bed has been approved by the government. It is a great opportunity for Indian wireless research and start-up community to utilise the 5G test-bed and build a wireless eco-system,” said IIT Madras professors Radhakrishna Ganti and R David Koilpillai.

The institute will also help in the overall testing and integration of all sub-system modules and the demonstration of the complete functionality of the final test-bed.

“We will hire project staff, bring in research scholars and buy equipment, which may cost Rs 20-30 crore a piece. The overall project may be around Rs 300 crore,” said Brejesh Lall, head of Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management at IIT Delhi. His team of 15-20 faculty members and students will work on security, energy harvesting, Internet of Things (IoT) and massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology.

Massive MIMO increases capacity of a base station by five to seven times and reduces interference substantially, in turn boosting the transmission signal to the devices.

Student enrolment for the project has begun at the IITs. “One of the goals of the test-bed is skill development and the students, after graduation, will be trained to contribute to the Indian industry in the 5G domain," said a professor at IIT Madras. “Graduate and under-graduate students are very excited and many have signed up.”

They said a few telcos are already partners in the project and want to contribute modules based on their specific business needs.

Kiran Kuchi, professor of electrical engineering at IIT Hyderabad, said a team of about 90 members from the institute will work on massive MIMO, radio base band and cloud RAN.

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-new...ge-internet-in-india/articleshow/62958217.cms​

 

[proud_indian]

@Indx TechStyle or anyone else

Can anyone plz explain in layman's terms what we are trying to achieve with this project and Can this project lead to our own 5g IP creation and we won't have to rely on the likes of Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia or Samsung in the future?

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Can anyone plz explain in layman's terms what we are trying to achieve with this project and Can this project lead to our own 5g IP creation and we won't have to rely on the likes of Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia or Samsung in the future?

May not be something great like Huawei but greater degree of autonomy on tech, experience and eco system for future.

 

[proud_indian]

May not be something great like Huawei but greater degree of autonomy on tech, experience and eco system for future.

So we still have to depend on Huawei/Nokia etc. for network solutions in the future?
Wouldn't it compromise our national security and what can be done to avoid it?

 

[proud_indian]

@Enquirer your thoughts ..................

 

[Enquirer]

So we still have to depend on Huawei/Nokia etc. for network solutions in the future?
Wouldn't it compromise our national security and what can be done to avoid it?

@Enquirer your thoughts ..................

India will depend on foreign companies for microchips that go into computers, mobiles & networking equipment.
Sourcing these from friendly Western countries is always preferable than sourcing them from adversaries like China.

That said, the specific issue wrt to 5G is probably not that pressing for India as India is unlikely to jump on the 5G bandwagon anytime soon. By the time India is ready for 5G Huawei will mostly be dead! US has cut off access to critical software and hardware designs to Huawei (by forcing Google, Microsoft, ARM etc to cut ties with Huawei). So, most probably Huawei will crumble and vanish in the next few years!!

 

[ezsasa]

India will depend on foreign companies for microchips that go into computers, mobiles & networking equipment.
Sourcing these from friendly Western countries is always preferable than sourcing them from adversaries like China.

That said, the specific issue wrt to 5G is probably not that pressing for India as India is unlikely to jump on the 5G bandwagon anytime soon. By the time India is ready for 5G Huawei will mostly be dead! US has cut off access to critical software and hardware designs to Huawei (by forcing Google, Microsoft, ARM etc to cut ties with Huawei). So, most probably Huawei will crumble and vanish in the next few years!!

5G is coming within the next 2-4 years, Jio is already 5G enabled(except for nodes in last mile)...
Govt is also prepping for this for some time...
https://www.livemint.com/industry/t...ll-out-5g-network-in-india-1558844925443.html

or am i missing something here......

 

[proud_indian]

India will depend on foreign companies for microchips that go into computers, mobiles & networking equipment.
Sourcing these from friendly Western countries is always preferable than sourcing them from adversaries like China.

That said, the specific issue wrt to 5G is probably not that pressing for India as India is unlikely to jump on the 5G bandwagon anytime soon. By the time India is ready for 5G Huawei will mostly be dead! US has cut off access to critical software and hardware designs to Huawei (by forcing Google, Microsoft, ARM etc to cut ties with Huawei). So, most probably Huawei will crumble and vanish in the next few years!!

and what about the 5g testbed (I posted above) we've been developing? What is it's objective?

as far as Huawei is concerned; Do you really think China would let it's crown jewel to get decimated?
I can understand that cut off access to android would definitely destroy Huawei's handset business but How would it affect its network business?

 

[ezsasa]

and what about the 5g testbed (I posted above) we've been developing? What is it's objective?

as far as Huawei is concerned; Do you really think China would let it's crown jewel to get decimated?
I can understand that cut off access to android would definitely destroy Huawei's handset business but How would it affect its network business?

Huawei is not the only 5G player in town, vietnam built their own 5G network.

Vietnam's top telecom to adopt 'self-developed' 5G tech
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/5G-networks/Vietnam-s-top-telecom-to-adopt-self-developed-5G-tech

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Huawei is not the only 5G player in town, vietnam built their own 5G network.

Vietnam's top telecom to adopt 'self-developed' 5G tech
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/5G-networks/Vietnam-s-top-telecom-to-adopt-self-developed-5G-tech

Seems like its SE Asia is better way following untapped potential left by PRC. It's only us who suck with electronics.

 

[Cutting Edge 2]

5G doesn't make any sense in India for now. India has still hasn't utilized 4G at its full potential. Don't forget massive costs of network up gradation for last mile reach and gov bureaucracy in spectrum allotment. Most telcos haven't even turned profit on their 4G investment.

What we should be worried is semiconductor fabs.

India needs semiconductor fab on urgent basis. Gov should be working on getting a semiconductor fab in India anyhow (by hook or crook). This effort should be on war footing.

If Modi brings at least one fab in his next 5 years tenure, I will permanently vote for BJP.

 

[Enquirer]

5G is coming within the next 2-4 years, Jio is already 5G enabled(except for nodes in last mile)...
Govt is also prepping for this for some time...
https://www.livemint.com/industry/t...ll-out-5g-network-in-india-1558844925443.html

or am i missing something here......

All that is speculation! How can they predict the deployment in 2 years when even the spectrum hasn't been identified...leave alone being auctioned!!!
5G needs massive investment. No cell service will invest in it until they've recouped the investment in the old network.

and what about the 5g testbed (I posted above) we've been developing? What is it's objective?

as far as Huawei is concerned; Do you really think China would let it's crown jewel to get decimated?
I can understand that cut off access to android would definitely destroy Huawei's handset business but How would it affect its network business?

Regarding the testbed, I am not fully aware of what they're testing. It seems more like a platform for students and professionals to get 'hands-on' experience on 5G technologies. So, not a big deal!

 

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Here’s why building a smartphone without US tech is impossible

Breaking down challenges and opportunities for a company to build a smartphone without using technology from the US. Here’s how your smartphone may look like without the American technology.

TECH Updated: May 30, 2019 11:37 IST
Kul Bhushan
Hindustan Times

What Huawei is facing today could be anyone tomorrow(REUTERS)

Huawei is caught in the crossfire of the US-China trade war. With the US firms barred from trading with Huawei, the Chinese conglomerate faces an existential crisis: building a handset from scratch.

Huawei is the second biggest smartphone brand in the world that shipped more than 200 million handsets last year; but even for a company with such stature, making a phone from the ground up -- especially without sourcing components from the US -- is increasingly proving to be a herculean task.

Actually, let’s put Huawei aside, it is next to impossible for any smartphone vendor to operate without resorting to American technologies – well, such is the complex nature of a phone. From tiny processors to the operating system that they run, US technology companies play an existential role in a myriad of aspects that go into the smartphones.

The state of things
In the last decade, smartphone manufacturing plants have mushroomed in China, Taiwan and other Asian markets. And even as they are bandying out millions of handsets each day, it is the US companies that own intellectual property rights and design expertise on those devices, explained Faisal Kawoosa, founder and analyst at research firm TechArc.
“Our dependency on US technology firms is very high. Unlike the West, Asian and Indian companies haven’t been able to venture much into this and related segments. Essentially, Asian firms may have excelled in manufacturing and hardware, but not so much when it comes to actually designing hardware,” he added.

And it’s rather shocking. “For instance, India has one of the best space researches and an excellent record of building satellites, but the country doesn’t have the expertise to build processors. Even if these are locally developed, the industry standards set by the likes of Intel and others make them look redundant. From an achievement point of view, it makes sense. But you can’t expect a commercial implementation of these locally produced chips in the future,” he added.

Another senior analyst, who did not wish to be quoted by their name to continue healthy a relationship with various stakeholders, said, “the US firms hold all the crucial IPs. It is very difficult to develop a smartphone without their IPs. From chip-level design to 4G and 5G standards, these companies have a monopoly. For any smartphone brand to bypass this is not practical at all.”

If the Trump administration in the US and China don’t resolve their issue in the coming months, Huawei will have no choice but to explore alternatives to all sorts of things to continue its smartphone operation. But what if, say hypothetically, other smartphone brands face a similar issue in the future? Say brand X, chooses to go ahead with developing a phone without the technology sourced from the US, how can they go about it? Let’s ponder.

A small disclosure: We’ve excluded components such as the battery and accessories that are relatively readily available at disposal today and are easier to manufacture outside the US -- without violating any crucial IPs.

Display
Top smartphone display makers aren’t from the US. So this should not be difficult for our supposed brand X, as it can either side with LG, Samsung, or Toshiba for the screen. It is worth noting that even Apple uses Samsung’s display on its iPhones. In China, there is also a display firm called BOE Technology Group that can offer a helping hand. This company is said to be working on advanced OLED panels that are increasingly showing up on current-generation high-end smartphones.

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Display is an easy part to source ( HT )
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Simply put, even if a US ban were in place, a phone company can easily source smartphone screens. Of course, there will be no Gorilla Glass technology to further shield those displays, but the brand X can consider Japanese AGC Inc, erstwhile known as Asahi Glass Co. Ltd., which offers similar Dragontrail display glasses.

Camera
Just like smartphone screens, none of the US companies are considered big in the camera sensor business. Some of the top smartphone camera sensor makers include Sony, Samsung, and Toshiba. Already, Sony’s IMX586 sensor has become a popular choice for smartphones’ 48-megapixel sensor. Samsung is already upping the game with an improved 48-megapixel sensor, and a new 64-megapixel sensor for phones.

PCBA
The engine of a smartphone is PCBA. The module houses multiple components including SoCs, RF components, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NAND and DRAM among others. Each component powers a different aspect of a phone.

Some of the top SoCs companies are Hisilicon, Qualcomm, Mediatek and Unisoc. While Huawei owns HiSilicon, MediaTek is a Taiwanese company. Unisoc is based in China. The US-based Qualcomm, however, is considered superior among the mobile chip players.

The catch is that their chip design is primarily sourced from ARM Holdings, a UK-based firm but with chip designs containing “US origin technology”. These SoCs operators secure a license from ARM for their own chips. Without ARM, as seen in the case of Huawei, it becomes very difficult for a smartphone brand to build a chip that’s been designed from scratch.

Counterpoint in its recent report said, “All of Huawei’s smartphones run on ARM architecture. The current chipsets already designed may not be affected, but the newer chipsets for late Q4 2019 will not be able to use ARM’s license. This will affect even smartphone sales in China.”

“Qorvo, Skyworks, and Broadcom RF components will be hard to replace for Huawei’s high-end LTE smartphones,” it added.​

A complex structure of PCBA ( Main image source: Xiaomi )
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As far as connectivity goes, 3GPP makes basic standards for 3G, 4G, and 5G standards. Major players like Qualcomm, Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE and many other players own IPs for this. In a shared arrangement, a brand may have a few workarounds to secure radio license but may end up missing out on some.

In the case of Huawei, SD Association temporarily banned the company, resulting which future Huawei phones may miss out on supporting or using microSD cards. Even Wi-Fi Alliance “temporarily restricted” Huawei.

Imagine a phone without memory and Wi-Fi support.

“Semiconductor design and development is a very capital and knowledge intensive business. Successful silicon companies spend billions of dollars on R&D annually, which is anywhere between 10-20% of their revenues. This should also be backed with support from best technology institutes. So essentially, all such technologies including their IPs are owned, co-developed or controlled by one or the other US company,” Kawoosa explained.

Operating system
The software situation is a bit more complicated. Also, note that the operating system and chipset are co-related.

“The OEMs get drivers from the chipset maker which in turns sources design from the likes of ARM. To write the operating system you have to use their architecture and write drivers that can talk to the hardware for proper implementation,” said Harsha Halvi, co-founder of TGB Labs working in area of mobile and SAAS apps.

“If you want to build an operating system, you have to bypass all these drivers and write them on own. For instance, Huawei uses ARM-based in-house Kirin chipsets. Huawei is writing its own drivers and they have greater control over the system. So they have to write drivers first and on top that they have to write kernels. After that, they can build their own operating system. But it is very difficult for a new or existing company with no such R&D backing to do so,” he added.
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Android and iOS are the top two smartphone OSes. ( Main image: Google )
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Since the extinction of OSes such as Windows Mobile and BlackBerry, there hasn’t been any competition for Google’s Android. Samsung does offer Tizen OS, but the software failed to take off on phones and is currently limited to wearables and TVs. Apple and its closed software ecosystem are also out of the question.

Without Android or Google’s open-source AOSP, the mobile OS will not be able to replicate the same experience that you get on your phone. For starters, you will lose access to all key Google applications ranging from Gmail to Search. Let’s not forget other third-party applications such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Skype, Amazon, Netflix, and others. Users will be forced to sideload applications instead of regular apps tore.

In China, where Android is already blocked, you have some alternatives to all of these applications but these alternative apps are unlikely to gain traction in other markets.
One can either create a new app store with a customised version of these popular applications or simply rely on mobile browser versions of the same. You, user, already know the stark difference between using an app and opening a browser version of the same. From a user experience point of view, a custom OS without top apps will be bland at best.

Bottomline
The challenges that a hypothetical Brand X is facing today could be a reality tomorrow, for everyone. The case of Huawei clearly stresses the need for an open-source framework which gives an equal opportunity to all smartphone companies regardless the country of their origin. It’s also a good wake up call for these firms to invest more in IPs and be more self-sufficient in the future.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/tech...-impossible/story-BeuvBWelB3emXnSgkfGR5J.html​

 

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Holitech Technology inaugurates its first India component manufacturing plant

DECCAN CHRONICLE

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Jun 16, 2019, 10:11 am IST

Holitech Technology is investing over 200 million USD in three years in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

Holitech Technology would be investing nearly 200 million USD over three years in the country.

Xiaomi, India’s number 1 smartphone brand and Smart TV brand today announced that Holitech Technology, a global component supplier has inaugurated its first component manufacturing plant in India. Holitech Technology has built its operations in Greater Noida in the state of Uttar Pradesh and was first invited by Xiaomi in Q1 2018 to investigate local manufacturing opportunities during its ‘Supplier Investment Summit’.

Holitech Technology would be investing nearly 200 million USD over three years in the country and would be manufacturing Compact Camera Modules (CCM), Capacitive Touch Screen module (CTP), Thin Film Transistor (TFT), Flexible Printed Circuits (FPC), and fingerprint module locally. The local manufacturing plant is ready and will be in production within Q3, 2019 and it aims to generate 6000 jobs in three years.

The component manufacturing plant is spread across 4 factories and spans over 25000 square meters in the city of Greater Noida and will start mass production with a production capacity of over 300 million components per year. The plant also boasts of class 1000 and class 100 clean room, an industry first. A cleanroom is a contained space where provisions are made to reduce particulate contamination and control other environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity and pressure.

Holitech Technology in partnership with the government of Uttar Pradesh is also organising a Supplier Investment Summit with Holitech Technology component suppliers on 16th June 2019 were over 15 of its suppliers are visiting the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The state of Uttar Pradesh has extended several incentives for the establishment of the manufacturing plants as per UP Electronics Manufacturing Policy.

Dr Dinesh Sharma, Deputy Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh said, “Uttar Pradesh is one of the youngest pioneering states of India. The state has a young entrepreneurial spirit and poses an attractive destination for similarly minded companies. Our state of the art infrastructural offerings make Uttar Pradesh an exciting investment opportunity and it is heartening to see Holitech Technology come to the state and initiate a big revolution in the market for local manufacturing.”

Muralikrishnan B, Chief Operating Officer, Xiaomi India said, “Xiaomi has witnessed significant growth in the country and we are positive that Holitech’s plans for India will herald a new stage of evolution for the electronics manufacturing industry in India. Holitech is a leading global component supplier and with their entry in India, we are positive that a new era of local electronics component manufacturing will begin fostering job creation and encourage the entry of other component manufacturers in India. As a brand dedicated to the cause of Make in India, we are proud to be leading this initiative from the forefront and hope to reinforce our commitment to delivering products with best specs, highest quality and honest pricing in India.”

Mr Chenguisheng, CEO, Holitech Technology said, “The phenomenal growth of Xiaomi along with their initiatives to promote local manufacturing has encouraged us to explore component manufacturing for Xiaomi in India. We are pleased to bring several industry firsts to the state of Uttar Pradesh with the manufacturing of camera modules, CTP, TFT, FPC and fingerprint module and propel the growth of component manufacturing in India. We hope to further boost this initiative by setting an example for other component manufacturers, and being a part of Xiaomi’s growth in India.”

This comes shortly after Xiaomi India organized a first of its kind global Supplier Investment Summit in April 2018. The objective of this summit was to encourage its top 50 global suppliers to locally manufacture in India. With the purpose of exploring investment opportunities, the suppliers had visited potential locations for establishing manufacturing units in the state. They had also paid a visit to the state of Uttar Pradesh where they were addressed by the Greater Noida authorities where they spent time discussing electronics manufacturing industry opportunities in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The suppliers had also visited the manufacturing facilities of Foxconn in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh in the state, dedicated towards manufacturing of smartphones for Xiaomi.

Holitech was founded in 2004 and is a leading electronic component manufacturer. The company majorly produces the following products: Liquid Crystal Displays, Liquid Crystal Display Modules, Touch Screens, Fingerprint recognition, Smart Wearable Products, intelligent Vehicle Products, Intelligent Micro Controller, Intelligent TLI/TFT Modules, and Embedded Display Modules etc. Since Holitech was founded, it developed and produced more than 1,000 different products used in Instruments and Meters, Smart Home Appliances, Communication Products, Smartphones, Industrial Equipment, Medical Equipment, Automotive Electronics, Digital Products, Watches etc.

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/160619/holitech-technology-inaugurates-its-first-india-component-manufacturin.html​

 

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India’s first processor ‘Shakti’ is ready for app development

IIT Madras has released the SDK for its open source Shakti processor.

Like China and those in the European Union, India is also displaying interest in designing its own processors instead of depending on those designed in the US.
It has been just a few days since the Shakti processor has been announced. The project funded by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is now ready for app development. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has released the SDK for its open-source Shakti processor that’s based on RISC-V instruction set architecture. IIT Madras also revealed that the development board will release in the near future as well.

Work on the Shakti processor began in 2016 by the RISE Group at IIT Madras and they aim to release up to six classes of processors that will be targeted at different markets. RISE promises that these processors would be able to compete with commercial chipsets in terms of area, performance and power consumption.

Like China and those in the European Union, India is also displaying interest in designing its own processors instead of depending on those designed in the US. By releasing the Shakti SDK, developers can start building apps for it even before it is made commercially available.

As per a report by Tom’s Hardware, the various processor classes are as follows:

E Class: This is a 3-stage in order that’s targeted at embedded devices such as IoT, robotics, motor controls and the like.

C Class: It is a 32-bit 5 stage in-order microcontroller-class of processors supporting 0.2-1 GHz clock speeds that are aimed at midrange application workloads and has a very low power profile. There’s also support for optional memory protection.

I Class: It is a 64-bit out of order processors that support clock speeds ranging from 1.5-2.5GHz. It also supports multi-threading and targets mobile, storage and network apps.

M Class: It supports multi-core processors up to eight CPU cores which can also include I and C class cores.

S Class: This is aimed at the workstation and server-type workloads and it is an enhanced version of the I Class processor that features multi-threading support.

H Class: This is primarily for high-performance and analytical workloads. The main feature here includes high-single thread performance, optional L4 cache and Gen-Z fabric and storage class memory.

It is also reported that the RISE Group is also working on two experimental classes of processors. The report states, “The first is the T class, which should support object-level security and coarse grain tags for micro-VM-like functionality to mitigate software attacks like buffer-overflow. The second is the F class, which can be thought of as an upgrade over the T class with additional support for redundant compute blocks and bus fabrics, ECC memory and functionality to detect permanent faults.”

https://www.asianage.com/technology...ssor-shakti-is-ready-for-app-development.html

 

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Divide By Zero Launches AION500 MK3 - World's Fastest 3D Printer

One of India’s largest 3D printer manufacturer, Divide By Zero has unveiled the AION500 MK3 - the fastest polymer extrusion based 3D Printer in the world, at the Automotive Engineering Show in Chennai.

Speaking at the launch, CEO & Founder Swapnil Sansare expressed “3D printing technology has been in the industry for the past 30 years and we all are fascinated by its potential, however, speed has been a drawback – until today. AION500 MK3 is 3X faster than conventional CNC machines. The printing speed is 10x more than any polymer extrusion-based platform anywhere in the world. Basically, you can now print the anatomical model of a human skull in minutes. Companies need not wait for a week for their orders when they can have it in mere hours.” He adds “The RoI for this machine is barely 4 months”.

Powered with DBZ’s revolutionary Patented ‘AFPM’ Technology AION500 MK3 can print 10X faster than any 3D printer without losing on mechanical properties, surface finish, and accuracy. Years of research has helped the team at DBZ to develop a high-speed, high throughput 3D printing solution which is built to revolutionize the industry worldwide and overcome the barriers of speed, time and cost. The added salient features of AION500 MK3 are –

- 1.5G Acceleration on Servo Gantry

- 1.5m/s Travel Speed

- All new dual drive Liquid Cooled Print Head

- 10-micron positional accuracy

This is a breakthrough which the Rapid Prototyping industry was yearning for since last decade.

Another unexplored arena is the demand for customized ‘Jigs and Fixtures’. 3D Printing has the potential of radically changing the face of on-demand JIG - Fixture manufacturing but due to the questions related to speed, strength, and affordability, this industry wasn’t able to reap the benefits. However, this Next-Gen Industrial Grade Workhorse has the power to complete the old school 3D Printing and actually make Rapid Prototyping ‘Rapid’.

DBZ is the preferred premium brand of 3D Printers in India across sectors like Automotive, FMCG, Jigs and Fixtures Manufacturers, Defence and Government Institutions and education institutes. Purely because the machines are professional, affordable and adhere to international quality standards. DBZ has around 600 installations all across the country and is the 1st company to export machines abroad.

https://www.siliconindia.com/gadget...K3--Worlds-Fastest-3D-Printer-nid-208869.html

 

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Samsung announces 'Made in India' Galaxy Note 10+ at Rs 89,999
So these phones are actually priced on par with the international price of the phone, the lower variant costs 79,999 which in US costs about 79000 and in Australia costs 82000 while the higher end variant costs 92000 in US for the non 5G. Here we'll get non 5G variant for now.

 

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How mobile manufacturing made the most of 'Make in India

Due to the focus on 'Make in India' and 'Digital India' programmes, Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the new hub of mobile manufacturing in the country over the past few years.

In July 2018, Samsung launched the world's largest mobile factory in Noida. The new facility was set up with the aim of doubling its capacity for mobile phones in Noida from 68 million units a year to 120 million units a year, in a phase-wise expansion to be completed by 2020.

New Delhi: From just two mobile phone manufacturing units in 2014 to 268 mobile handset and accessories manufacturing units in 2019 which has led to 95% of mobile phones sold in the country being produced domestically, the star in India's 'Make in India' story is indeed shining.

In fact, India is today the second-largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world after China.

'India has achieved tremendous success in mobile phone and component manufacturing in the last four years with more than 95% of domestic consumption now being produced in India,' Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA), told IANS.

 

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Tesla, Two Chinese Firms Show Interest In India’s Rs 50,000 Crore Plan To Build Six Lithium-Ion Battery ‘Gigafactories’

Tesla’s Gigafactory (Tesla)


Elon Musk’s Tesla and two Chinese firms, Contemporary Amperex Technology and BYD Auto Company, have shown interest in being part of the Narendra Modi government’s plan to invest around Rs 50,000 crore to build mega factories to produce lithium-ion batteries in the country, business daily Mint has reported.

The programme, which is being managed by government think-tank NITI Aayog, has received approval from the Expenditure Finance Committee and, according to reports, is likely to be placed before the cabinet soon.

The plan is aimed at securing India’s energy needs as the government pushes the adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in the country. To achieve this, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had unveiled fiscal incentives for electric vehicle (EV) buyers and a favourable regulatory environment for the nascent industry in the budget.

To lower the cost of manufacturing for the industry, she announced customs duty exemption on lithium–ion cells, most of which are imported from China. Income tax exemption and indirect tax benefits were announced for the makers of critical EV components like solar electric charging infrastructure and lithium storage batteries.

To attract buyers, she announced a rebate of up to Rs 1.5 lakh for the buyers on interest paid on loans to purchase the vehicles. The second phase of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles scheme, or FAME-II, has also been implemented with an outlay of Rs 10,000 crore.

To power these EVs, conservative estimates suggest, India will need six gigawatt-scale (10GWh each) facilities by the year 2025 and at least 12 by 2030. NITI Aayog’s “base scenario”, according to Mint, envisions 11 such factories by 2025 and 24 by 2030.

The government has decided that the programme will be technology-agnostic, which means market factors such as price and demand will dictate the selection of technology that is employed by the participating players.

The Cabinet is likely to approve the programme by September. Next, the government will float international tenders and plans to award the tenders by February 2020.

These mega battery storages will also be part of the electric grid. India has already become a leading producer of clean energy from renewable sources such as solar and wind. However, the intermittent nature of electricity produced from these sources makes the development of storage infrastructure necessary.

Battery forms the most important part of an EV. The amount of energy that can be stored in the battery determines the range of an EV. Battery alone can form up to 40 per cent of the cost of an EV in many cases.

With state-led initiatives, China has managed to dominate the supply of this critical equipment and the elements required to make it. Currently, China is producing at least two-thirds of the world’s lithium-ion batteries.

China’s BYD, one of the many firms to have expressed initial interest to be part of the NITI Aayog’s battery programme, is the world’s largest maker of electric vehicles.

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