Renesas Electronics Corporation is looking for local production of chipsets that the company is developing in partnership with leading software company TCS, a senior official of the company said.
In March, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Renesas Electronics Corporation (Renesas) open a joint Innovation Center in Bengaluru and Hyderabad to jointly develop semiconductor chipsets for wireless technologies and industrial technologies for the global market.
Renesas Executive Vice President and General Manager, IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit, Sailesh Chittipeddi told PTI that the collaboration is on the lines of “Make in India to make for the world“.
Sailesh Chittipeddi Said :
“Partnership with TCS will start bearing fruit in 2 years in the form of semiconductor chipsets and system solutions for both Indian and global markets. We aim to explore pathways to locally produce these chips as part of the Make in India initiative with partnerships,”.
Renesas gets most of its semiconductor made through third party electronic chip plants which are then processed into System on Chip (SoC).
The SoC integrates multiple computing functions on a single chipsets like processing unit, memory, graphics etc.
Renesas is the largest microcontroller and third-largest automotive semiconductor company globally as per market research firm Gartner.
The Renesas will develop SoCs with TCS initially for 4G, 5G telecom networks and industrial technologies.
Sailesh Chittipeddi Said :
“The hardware part will come from us. We will work jointly on the firmware. Software and other stack will come from TCS,”
TCS and state-run C-DoT led consortium has bag a contract to deploy 4G and 5G technologies in BSNL network.
Sailesh Chittipeddi Said :
“We are starting first in the telecom space in partnership with Tejas and Saankhya. Simultaneously there are other things that are going on in the area of industrial applications,”.
Semiconductor company Saankhya Labs was acquire by Tata group’s telecom gear maker Tejas Network in 2022.
Renesas at present has partnership with Chennai-based SPEL Semiconductor for assembly of its chipsets and Bengaluru-based Tessolve Semiconductors for design of the chipsets.
Sailesh Chittipeddi said assembly and testing companies will come up faster and before semiconductor manufacturing plants.
Sailesh Chittipeddi said that Renesas is in talks with other semiconductor assembly and testing companies in India as well besides existing partners.
