Defining factors for growth of VLSI & Semiconductor ecosystem in India

It is clear today that we have a runway of opportunities in the ESDM (Electronics System Design and Manufacturing) space, in the embedded design space, and of course, the semiconductor space.

India represents tremendous market for the application and use of technology. It represents a country where there is tremendous depth in innovation ecosystem and a vibrant ecosystem of performing entrepreneurs. Government policy and Government capital is going to catalyse these 2 elements and create a sustainable ecosystem that will serve the world’s demand, and India’s need in the coming decade. Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, was addressing 35th International VLSI Design and Embedded Systems Conference 2022, organised under the aegis of VLSI Society of India together with Industry partners. The theme for this year’s conference was Silicon Catalysing Computing, Communication and Cognitive Convergence.

Mentioning about the opportunities in the electronics sector, Rajeev further added that “It is clear today that we have a runway of opportunities in the ESDM (Electronics System Design and Manufacturing) space, in the embedded design space, and of course, the semiconductor space. Our ambitions specifically to the semiconductor space are very clear. It involves big investment in fabs, which is natural – given the geopolitics, but also in the ecosystem around innovation, design and systems.

India is essentially investing government capital in creating skill talent, from research and design engineering side to the factory, testing, and packaging workforce side. The Government is Narrow Focusing on its own design & developing efforts around the future roadmap of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC – V) RISC V & other open source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) systems.