India’s chip hopes
The Tribune Editorial: India needs to build on the gains — around 20 per cent of the world’s chip design engineers are based here.
THERE are some glad tidings for India in the fiercely competitive chip sector. The Semiconductor Lab of ISRO has developed the country’s first fully indigenous 32-bit microprocessor. The first ‘Made in India’ chip is set to be rolled out from the pilot facility at Sanand (Gujarat), even as 10 semiconductor projects, involving a total investment of over $18 billion, are underway — including one in Punjab’s Mohali. India is keen to become a major global player in this field, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi hopeful that “the day is not far when India’s smallest chip will drive the world’s biggest change”.