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http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206900281 SemIndia's $3 billion fab project is likely to die a premature death as will another fab planned by India Electronics Manufacturing Corp. (IEMC). In addition, Korean investor June Min's plan to set up India's first fab in Hyderabad has been abandoned in favor of making photovoltaic products. India had made major strides in the last year, announcing a chip manufacturing policy. The incentive policy was intended to help launch state-of-the-art fabs here over the next few years. But the high expectations here for a domestic chip industry have faded as financial realities reemerge. Both SemIndia's fab, which would use technology from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and IEMC's fab appear to be dead in the water. ............... Despite the uncertainty, SemIndia's Systems unit is emerging as the company's flagship, and its manufacturing capability has bolstered the company's financial perfo

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/nanotech-used-2.html Damascus swords -- sharp enough to slice a falling piece of silk in half, strong enough to split stones without dulling -- owe their legendary qualities to carbon nanotubes, says chemist and Nobel laureate Robert Curl . The blades used so-called wootz steel, smelted with a technique developed 2000 years ago in India, where craftsmen added wood and other organic debris to their furnaces. The resulting carbon-laced steel, hard but flexible, was soon celebrated across the ancient world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cnet.com/matter-antimatter/8301-13641_1-9849464-44.html And now India proudly presented the spiritual successor to all of these -- the $2,500 Tata Nano , a "people's car" that is widely gushed about, not only for its surprisingly slick design but also for its innovations The Indian Economic Times even proclaims the " coming Nano Age :&quo