India is projected to face a shortage of nearly 3 lakh semiconductor professionals by 2027. Without a coherent talent strategy, states risk creating infrastructure without a workforce to operate it.
Chinese analysts have accused the US of technological duplicity, undermining companies like Huawei on national security grounds while exporting its own surveillance-capable hardware.
India’s reliance on imported semiconductors is a strategic weakness. In 2023-24, it imported $89.8 billion worth of electronic and telecom goods—with China accounting for nearly 44 per cent of that total.
Between 2022 and 2023, exporting the H800 chips to China was entirely legal. Not only DeepSeek but many other Chinese firms stockpiled them in anticipation of future restrictions.
The so-called ‘showdown of the century’ between the two nations’ semiconductor industries has driven China’s innovation, fuelled by market demand and US restrictions.
While addressing Semicon India 2024, PM Narendra Modi says India's favourable policies have helped attract investments more than Rs 1.5 trillion in this sector.
Legacy chips, defined by US law as semiconductor chips that are 28 nm or larger, are integral to everyday consumer products. China's called US attempts to control its exports 'economic bullying'.
Advanced semiconductor chips are pivotal for the next generation of artificial intelligence technologies, which is one reason why the US isn't letting NVIDIA sell directly to Chinese firms.
The new 500,000-square-foot campus will increase AMD’s office footprint in India to 10 locations. It already has more than 6,500 employees in the country.
India wants to establish itself as a semiconductor hub and the high demand for chips means the local market will be worth $80 billion by 2028, almost 4 times its $23 billion size now.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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