PuneChips
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[edit] Overview
PuneChips is a vertically focused user group to foster the development of semiconductor design and applications related companies in and around Pune. This group is expected to contain technology professionals and students interested in this area. The group has a mailing list for discussions amongst members, a linked-in group for discovery and networking, and monthly offline meetings which are announced on the mailing list.
[edit] Links
- PuneChips Linked in group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1924468
- Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/punechips
- PuneChips blog: http://punetech.com/category/punechips (RSS feed)
- List of Semiconductor/EDA companies in Pune
[edit] Background
PuneChips was started as a Special Interest Group within the PuneTech community.
PuneTech itself was formed to help Tech companies in Pune communicate with each other and other experts in the field and it has been extremely successful. However, PuneTech caters to the generic IT industry and there is no specific focus on any field. There are about 15 semiconductor/EDA companies in Pune area; most being dev centers of US parents. In informal discussions with a few of them, it was indicated that they would indeed like to see a SIG that supports Semiconductor Design and Applications as a focus. In addition to these companies, we are going to open the door to students and research labs around Pune.
The hope is to start with at least one monthly meeting where a guest speaker would come in and speak about recent developments in technology, opportunities that exist for the taking, new applications development, etc. One thing we do not want to do is to convert this into a jobs group so will be weeding out HR and recruitment professionals. This is only meant for Techies and Sales/Marketing
PuneChips was started by Abhijit Athavale with the help of Navin Kabra and Amit Paranjape.
[edit] Articles
- See all PuneTech articles about PuneChips at: http://punetech.com/category/punechips
