{"id":54542,"date":"2026-01-27T02:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54542"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:58:58","slug":"can-india-be-a-player-in-the-computer-chip-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54542","title":{"rendered":"Can India be a player in the computer chip industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A reliable supply of computer chips is essential for Arnob Roy, the co-founder of Tejas Networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His company, based in Bangalore, India, supplies the equipment behind mobile phone networks and broadband connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Essentially, we provide the electronics that carry traffic across telecom networks,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That requires special chips designed for telecoms tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Telecom chips are fundamentally different from consumer or smartphone chips. They handle massive volumes of data coming simultaneously from hundreds of thousands of users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These networks cannot go down. Reliability, redundancy and fail-safe operation are critical &#8211; the chip architecture has to support that,&#8221; Roy says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tejas designs many of those chips in India, a country well known for its expertise in designing computer chips (also known as semiconductors).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s estimated that 20% of the world&#8217;s semiconductor engineers are in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Almost every major global chip company has its largest or second-largest design centre in India, working on cutting-edge products,&#8221; says Amitesh Kumar Sinha, Joint Secretary of India&#8217;s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What India lacks is companies that manufacture semiconductors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Indian firms like Tejas Neworks design the chips they need in India, but then have them manufactured overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weakness of that system&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-58230388\">was exposed during Covid<\/a>, when the supply of chips dried up and companies in all sorts of industries had to scale back production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The pandemic made it clear that semiconductor manufacturing is too concentrated globally, and that concentration carries serious risk,&#8221; Roy says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That spurred India to develop its own semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Covid showed us how fragile global supply chains can be. If one part of the world shuts down, electronics manufacturing everywhere is disrupted,&#8221; says Sinha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That&#8217;s why India is developing its own semiconductor ecosystem to reduce risk and increase resilience,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is leading government efforts to develop the semiconductor industry, which involves identifying parts of the production process where India can compete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: A reliable supply of computer chips is essential for Arnob Roy, the co-founder of Tejas Networks. His company, based in Bangalore, India, supplies the equipment behind mobile phone networks and broadband connections. &#8220;Essentially, we provide the electronics that carry traffic across telecom networks,&#8221; he says. That requires special chips designed for telecoms tasks. &#8220;Telecom chips are fundamentally different from consumer or smartphone chips. They handle massive volumes of data coming simultaneously from hundreds of thousands of users. &#8220;These networks cannot go down. 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