The leading locomotive maker in China said last week that it has made its first bulk export of eight-inch transistor chips to India for upgrading the transformers of 100 electric locomotives to make the electric trains more energy-efficient.
The state-run locomotive maker based in Zhuzhou City in central China’s Hunan province, said that it exported eight-inch insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) chips to India.
India and China have agreed to cooperate in identifying the technical inputs required to increase speed on the existing railway line from Chennai to Mysore via Bangalore. China is also conducting feasibility study for a high speed railway line between Chennai and New Delhi.