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Walton and ACI set to enter semiconductor manufacturing business

Ok, aren't you getting into a circular argument then? If Bangladesh doesn't start, how will it eventually be able to emulate the success of Taiwan?

No one is expecting Bangladesh to bag billions in export right from the get go. Once we get started, it will take years to learn, adopt and develop. But this is the future and Bangladesh needs a foothold in it.

You can start ... do not expect any miracles here. you need be realistic here. you need lots of luck succeeding here

He is Indian with twin US flags.

India has failed and so smaller BD must too.

The capital requirements and technological restrictions meant India never tried
Of course India has unique infrastructure constraints
 
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Good initiative....you have to innovate and try....BD future depends on expanding its technical and economic base.
 
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"Bangladesh earns about $5 million annually through designing semiconductor chips. But neighbouring India is earning $60 billion from this sector."

India earns 60 billion dollars from semiconductor industry, that's incredible didn't knew that.

India has failed and so smaller BD must too.
It wouldn't be because India failed at it - would it? :-)


We haven't even started yet
 
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semiconductor manufacturing has the following characteristics
1. highly skilled work force

2. capital intensive
Capital can be raised. You have to ask yourself if it is best use of capital

3. requires good relationships with USA and EU countries who supply the equipment for semiconductor manufacturing
You can quit farting about relationship with China

4. not many jobs
You are getting a few thousand jobs for billions in investments
You missed out logistics infrastructure
 
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Electronics market in India: US$71,180.00m


Electronics market in Bangladesh: US$9,864.00m


The industry is expected to grow at a rate of 15% per annum and reach around USD 12 billion by 2025. The size of the consumer electronics market was estimated to be around USD 2.4billion in 2020 and it is expected to reach USD 10 billion by 2030.


@Nilgiri please put your shit somewhere else.
 
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You missed out logistics infrastructure

What kind of logistics? The kind that pays octroi at three different state borders and takes up more than a week to get a container to port?
 
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Electronics market in India: US$71,180.00m


Electronics market in Bangladesh: US$9,864.00m


The industry is expected to grow at a rate of 15% per annum and reach around USD 12 billion by 2025. The size of the consumer electronics market was estimated to be around USD 2.4billion in 2020 and it is expected to reach USD 10 billion by 2030.


@Nilgiri please put your shit somewhere else.

India has a problem. Some of their uncouth uncivilized people have become too eligible, too quickly for moderately well paying back-office jobs without learning the basics of decency and polished behavior first.

Usually it took three/four generations to learn this decency with onset of wealth, now it does not even take one.

Being uncouth, the breadth of their mentality can be easily gauged. They all have cellphones now, without even knowing how to speak English properly.

Ghatiya Neech Aadmi sab - too jealous about any Bangladeshi development.
 
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Electronics market in India: US$71,180.00m


Electronics market in Bangladesh: US$9,864.00m


The industry is expected to grow at a rate of 15% per annum and reach around USD 12 billion by 2025. The size of the consumer electronics market was estimated to be around USD 2.4billion in 2020 and it is expected to reach USD 10 billion by 2030.


@Nilgiri please put your shit somewhere else.
I mean who will teach stupid lungis that electronics is not just consumer electronics.

In 2016-17, India exported electronic goods worth Rs 39,980 crore, which rose by 104 per cent to Rs 81,948 crore in 2020-21

Similarly, in 2016-17, India produced electronic products worth Rs 3,17,331 crore, which in 2020-21 rose to Rs 5,54,461 crore, a jump of 74.4 per cent.

Your consumer electronic market is worth $2.4 billion but revenue is $9.4 billion. How does that work?

India has a problem. Some of their uncouth uncivilized people have become too eligible, too quickly for moderately well paying back-office jobs without learning the basics of decency and polished behavior first.

Usually it took three/four generations to learn this decency with onset of wealth, now it does not even take one.

Being uncouth, the breadth of their mentality can be easily gauged. They all have cellphones now, without even knowing how to speak English properly.

Ghatiya Neech Aadmi sab - too jealous about any Bangladeshi development.
Ah cute. CHADDI Stiching lungis will teach couth behavior. GTFO.
 
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I mean who will teach stupid lungis that electronics is not just consumer electronics.

In 2016-17, India exported electronic goods worth Rs 39,980 crore, which rose by 104 per cent to Rs 81,948 crore in 2020-21

Similarly, in 2016-17, India produced electronic products worth Rs 3,17,331 crore, which in 2020-21 rose to Rs 5,54,461 crore, a jump of 74.4 per cent.

Your consumer electronic market is worth $2.4 billion but revenue is $9.4 billion. How does that work?


Ah cute. CHADDI Stiching lungis will teach cough behavior. GTFO.

I guess idiots don’t know the difference between home appliances and consumer electronics.

 
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why the f... are we concerned how bd plans out its semi conductor manufacturing business ? Some very ott responses here.
Best of luck to them.
its a difficult field both from financial and technical angles. But not impossible.
Would be interesting to research how Taiwan became the world leader in chip manufacturing, being such a small country.
 
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BD has the most advanced electronics industry in the whole of S Asia and so it is good time for it to start on this path now.
It is very expensive to set up the foundries. You need some seriously skilled people to work in this profession even for licenseed production.
 
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It is very expensive to set up the foundries. You need some seriously skilled people to work in this profession even for licenseed production.
yup the 40 to 60 b usd wafer manufacturing price is a big roadblock. And you can't have large markups on the finished product as its sold as nearly a commodity. Low margins.
Companies designing the core softwares have much better margins as i remember.
 
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With some support, a slice of $600b semiconductor market can be ours

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After graduating from Buet in 1977, Mohammed Enayetur Rahman went to Oregon State University in the United States of America to study Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.


He then joined AMD, the famous American multinational semiconductor company as a semiconductor chip designer. After leaving AMD, Enayetur returned to Bangladesh and started Ulkasemi, a semiconductor designing company, in Dhaka with only four engineers in 2008.

At the time the market for semiconductors was around $248.5 billion according to Statista.


Enayetur could easily be described as the first mover: the pioneer in a market that has since grown to a staggering $600 billion in the decade-and-a-half since Enayetur started.

The engineer could also be described as highly intuitive. The semiconductor industry is now considered the most promising industry of the 21st century.


A semiconductor, also known as microchip, is used in all electronic devices from computers, smartphones, washing machines, electric tea kettle to automobiles and warplane missile systems and has become part of modern life at all levels.

In the future, with the rise of technological innovation, it would be needed to manufacture almost all devices for human use.


While the market has so far been catered to by newcomers – Ulkasemi, Neural Semiconductor, Prime Silicon and Toton Electronics – in Bangladesh, two new big players in ACI and Walton are also set to enter the market which is expected to hit the mammoth trillion-dollar mark by 2030.


According to McKinsey, a global consultancy firm, the global semiconductor market reached $600 billion in 2021, with growth of more than 20%.

Despite the bounties the industry has to offer, the budget for the fiscal 2021-22 made no mention of the semiconductor industry, nor were any policy support announced.


Enayetur Rahman said, "In the beginning, it was very hard to make people understand that Bangladesh could produce chips. But now the industry is growing and it needs special attention."

Enayetur, whose company now employs 300 engineers and wants to hire 500 by 2024, urged the government to provide special incentives to the sector like the neighbouring India does.

Dr Farseem Mannan Mohammedy, professor of electrical and electronic engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (Buet), told The Business Standard, "Bangladesh earns about $5 million annually through designing semiconductor chips. But neighbouring India is earning $60 billion from this sector."

India's envious standing is not by chance. Apart from the country's investment into setting up IT-based universities, the Indian government also announced a $1,000 crore fund to strengthen the semiconductor industry in December last year.

The industry has the potential to leave the current highest foreign currency earner garments industry in the dust.

"In Bangladesh, less than one lakh people in the semiconductor sector would be able to earn more than what 40 lakh people do in the RMG sector," Dr Farseem said.

"Intel employs 500 people from Bangladesh. This is brain drain. If we could establish an industry here, then those people could return. But this technology-based industry can never be fully developed without the special attention of the government. Because, this industry needs a lot of investment," he added.

According to government officials, initiatives are being undertaken.

Bikarna Kumar Ghosh, managing director of the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority, said, "The government has set up 10-12 IT villages, silicon city, electronic city, IT incubators and ICT parks in the country, including the Bangabandhu High-Tech Park and the Jashore Software Technology Park. These parks are providing plots on easy terms with tax holiday facilities to the investors.

"Recently, Ulkasemi has taken land in Bangabandhu Hi-Tech Park. We are ready to help them."

The rise of the 'conductors'

Didar Islam, who worked in the Silicon Valley, USA in the 1980s for more than a decade, was the first person to invest in the semiconductor sector in Bangladesh some 15 years back with his company Power IC. Their initial plan was to build a fabrication facility.

However, Didar's project faced various obstacles and he later started another company Solaric, which is now working on solar power in the country.

Enayetur, on the other hand, enjoyed much more success with his Ulkasemi.

It started with its headquarter based in Silicon Valley, USA. The company has been working on circuit design and layout since 2008. It has been involved in chip design and verification work since 2012.

Since its inception, it has opened two more offices in Toronto, Canada and in Bangalore, India to meet increasing work orders.

In 2021, Ulkasemi became the design centre alliance partner of TMSC, one of the leading semiconductor companies in the world. Only 20 companies in the world are affiliated with the design centre alliance of TMSC.

Ulkasemi has also announced a $25 million investment for semiconductor design service in Bangabandhu Hi-Tech Park.

Meanwhile, Neural Semiconductor Limited is a sister concern of DBL Group which is one of the leading RMG companies in the country.

Neural Semiconductor began its journey in 2017. It initially hired 20 engineers, but now has more than 100.

Officials of the company said that the number would be doubled within this year.

Shakhawat Hossain, chief operating officer of Neural Semiconductor, said, "We are currently working on the analogue design, digital design, digital verification, physical and testing design. The company has been working for various companies in the United States, Japan and Malaysia.

"In the initial stage, it was a big challenge to attract engineers to this sector. But now the situation has changed. However, there is still a shortage of high-value commercial software, electronic design automation tools and experts."

Mohammed Jabbar, managing director of DBL Group, said, "The government needs to take special initiatives to develop the semiconductor sector. Our universities need state-of-the-art laboratories along with a modern curriculum."

Walton and ACI are coming

The country's electronics giant Walton started manufacturing computers and laptops in 2018. The company is also producing gaming computers. It started its journey producing mobile phones and home appliances.

Now the company is going to invest in the semiconductor sector soon. It has already secured a location in the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech Park, an official of Walton said.

However, as the company is listed on the stock exchange, its officials did not want to give any official statement in this regard before a formal announcement.

Like Walton, there is also information that ACI, one of the leading industrial groups in the country, is going to invest in the semiconductor sector too. The investment will be under ACI Electronics, a subsidiary of ACI Group.



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In before “Balady BAL brat first learn how to make needles before making semiconductors, stupid BAL brats and namrudi begom”
That's really good news, GoB is looking for ways to monetise it's stability and if it can manage to break into this sector, it would be a big windfall.

The approach would be to start small and go for the big sized chips used supplementarily and try to integrate into the global chip logistical system.

From that point on it would be focused on refining and upgrading capabilities.

The challenges GoB might face along the way:
1. Very high capital requirements. For an emerging nation, every cent counts, chip making requires horrendous levels of initial investment and the ROI is long and uncertain.

2. The physical nature of manufacturing the chips requires absolute control over environmental and logistical factors. This greatly increases cost. To economically offset this one would need an entire domestic supply line that would need chips constantly. Something that GoC has been able to develop and to be emulated.

3. The end argument would come down to the economics of scale involved in the operation and can the resources be better utilised elsewhere
 
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Does Bangladesh government offer special subsidies and incentives for investors in this space? 🤔
 
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