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http://www.channelworld.in/interviews/emc-india-ready-quantum-leap-2016-rajesh-janey

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EMC India ready for quantum leap in 2016: Rajesh Jane

EMC Corporation with revenues of $24.4 billion in 2014 and 62,000 people worldwide enables businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. The storage giant besides innovations in flash, software defined and other offerings last year accelerated its strategy around Cloud and Big Data for enterprise customers. 2015 was also a defining year as tech major Dell announced its intent to buy EMC in $67 Bn deal.

IDG India spoke to Rajesh Janey, President India & SAARC, EMC at length on the business outlook in 2016, the impact from DELL EMC merger, the channel partner roadmap and other growth drivers for the company.

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http://www.androidauthority.com/qualcomm-tsmc-umc-fab-148184/

Qualcomm getting tired of TSMC, wants another company to fab their chips

United Semiconductor has allegedly sent 28 nanometer samples to Qualcomm in an attempt to become their second fab parter. If that sentence went over your head, let’s break it down.

Qualcomm is a company that design chips. They don’t make them. That job is left for another company that owns what we in the industry like to call a “fab”. That’s short for silicon fabrication facility. TSMC, which stands for Taiwan Semiconductor, makes all of Qualcomm’s chips. That exclusive relationship hurt Qualcomm last year when they failed to keep up with demand. Which brings us to today’s news. Another company by the name of United Semiconductor, UMC for short, has made some chips using their fab that they’ve now sent to Qualcomm to evaluate. If Qualcomm likes what they see, then that means UMC effectively becomes Qualcomm’s second partner.

Why hasn’t Qualcomm done this sooner? Two reasons come to mind. The first one is simple. Qualcomm just didn’t have enough people. You can’t just design a chip for one fab and then use that same design in another fab. That’s sadly not how chip making works. The second reason is more strategic. Not all fabs are state of the art. Intel has the best fabs in the world, no one is denying that. And as for TSMC, they’re number two. Qualcomm, knowing this, likely wanted to rely solely on TSMC so that they could use the best of what the market offered them.

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Chip foundry UMC plans trial output of 10nm chips in 2016

KEN SAKAKIBARA, Nikkei staff writer