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In today�s world, there are many challenges in automotive and aerospace applications like enhancement of fuel economy, reduction in weight, maintaining safety, quality maintenance. To meet these requirements, there is need to develop new materials with new fabrication processes. The requirement for high-performance and lightweight materials in the automotive and aerospace application has led to extensive research and work efforts in the development of magnesium matrix composites and their cost-effective fabrication technologies. Composite materials are versatile in terms of constituent selection so that the properties of the materials can be modified. Addition of reinforcing materials such as rice husk, fly ash cenosphere, machining chips, Al2O3, SiC, B4C, metallic glass, etc., is one of the ways to enhance various mechanical properties of Mg based MMCs. The cost-effective methodology of composite materials is, therefore, an essential element for expanding their applications. The availability of a wide variety of reinforcing techniques is attracting interest in composite materials. This is especially true for the high performance magnesium materials due to certain unique characteristics of composites which offer effective approaches to strengthen the properties of magnesium alloys.