Fab Dreams, Design Reality
From missed opportunities in the 1960s to today’s fab ambitions, India’s semiconductor quest hinges on aligning world-class chip design with homegrown manufacturing. In the context of the ‘Make in India’ initiative, our ambition of becoming an independent semiconductor‑manufacturing hub has become a national discourse. Having spent the last decade and a half in hands‑on micro-manufacturing, both in academic and industrial R&D with a few patents in the field, I know how crucial this field is...