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http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?chklogin=&autono=190868&leftnm=lmnu9&leftindx=9&lselect=5 US nanotech firm plans investments Joydeep Ray / Ahmedabad June 07, 2005 Cientifica Inc, the US-based supplier of nanotechnology information, has decided to invest in a big way in the Mumbai-based Yash Nanotech, a division of Yash Management & Satellite Limited (YMSL). Cientifica had forged a strategic alliance with Yash Nanotech in May, which so far has been only a technical, consulting and marketing partnership. Cientifica, is now looking at selling its nanotechnology experience mainly in the textile, chemicals and petrochemicals sector in the country and also planning to make India its global nanotechnology outsourcing hub, said Tim Harper, chief executive officer of the company. Harper told Business Standard, “With our global presence across London, Madrid, Oslo, Singapore and Mumbai, Cientifica has now decided to make substantial investment in the I

http://us.rediff.com/money/2005/jun/15spec1.htm In 1987, Pratul Shroff, now president and CEO of the Ahmedabad-based eInfochips, returned to India. He'd worked in the United States for several years after obtaining a master's degree in computer engineering from Cornell university. The electronics engineer from BITS, Pilani, had worked for Intel and had been one of the designers of the 80186 chip, which helped launch the personal computer era. The Rs 19 crore (Rs 190 million) (2003-2004) eInfochips is now targeting revenues of Rs 138 crore (Rs 1.38 billion) in five years time. In 1999, K Ramachandra Reddy started MosChip Semiconductor Technology in Hyderabad after having worked for 20 years at Silicon Valley designing semiconductors. No single Indian company then was a fabless company (a fabless semiconductor company designs, develops and tests a chip, but mass production happens in a foundry). "I wanted MosChip to be the first semiconductor product company from India and b