Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

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Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (HSMC) is a planned semiconductor foundry near the city of Hyderabad in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

1 Company Management
2 Product Focus
3 Current Status
4 Technology Partnerships
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Company Management

HSMC is headed by a host of Non-Resident Indians chaired by Deven Verma. Board of directors and advisors are:

Dr. Deven Verma

-Chairman and Acting CEO

Rajvir Singh

-Founder of Redwood Ventures, Cerent, Stratum One

Dr. Satish Gupta

-Former Sr. Executive of Cirrus Logic -Former CEO of Cradle Systems- a processor company

Prof Krishna Saraswat

-Stanford University - Micro Electronics, -Former member of Rajiv Gandhi Semiconductor team

Dr. C Kumar N Patel

-CEO of Pranalytica, -Former Director of Bell Labs and Vice Chairman (R&D) UCLA -Former member of Rajiv Gandhi Semiconductor team**Raj Parekh -Managing Partner Redwood Ventures -Former CTO of Sun Microsystems

Prof. Sanjay Banerjee

-University of Texas, Austin - Micro Electronics

Anant Agrawal

-Former Senior VP of Sun Microsystems

Avtar Sani

-Former Exceutive of Intel Pentium and Director of Intel chip design group -Founding President of Intel South Asia/India

Ankineedu Velaga

-Worked as GM of a number of foundries - Siltera, Chartered Semiconductor

Vishal Verma

-Partner, Edgewood Ventures, LLC. -Founder of Akroria Network

[edit] Product Focus

HSMC’s focus will be on System On Chip (SoC) for products like mobile phones, wired line telecom products like broadband, sim cards, ID cards, set top boxes and automotive chip sets.

[edit] Current Status

The fabrication unit's construction is supposed to start in 2007. The initial investment expected in HSMC is USD 1 billion which may be scaled up as the need arises for more production.

[edit] Technology Partnerships

The company has roped in Infineon Technologies as a technology partner and licensed its 130 nm technology[1]. HSMC will manufacture Infineon's chips for cell phones, smart cards and automotive segment for the Indian market. Infineon has not bought equity in HSMC.