India Emerging as New Frontier for Chip Making: IESA President

• India rises in semiconductor manufacturing with strong talent and policy support.
• AI infrastructure grows with GPUs and green data centers.
• Country gears up for Industry 4.0 with tech-driven, sustainable growth.

Ashok Chandak, President of IESA and SEMI India, states that India is staunchly positioning itself to be a large global hub of semiconductor manufacturing. This pivot comes as a result of many aspects such as the semiconductor design ecosystem is strong, domestic consumers are increasingly moving to advanced semiconductor driven interfaces and Government actions like the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme and the funding of fab and ATMP (Assembly, Testing, Marking, and Packaging) facilities.

Chandak states that India's advantage is its hands-on talent. Specifically, we have 20% of the world's design engineers for semiconductors within the country. Further, Chandak references the emphasis that is being made on AI infrastructure, namely high-performance GPU deployment for model training and inference, along with green energy-powered data centers, which is contributing to a greater vision for clean industrial development in India.

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While India is at the start of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Chandak sees India transition from a consumer of certain technologies to the actual creator. Through strong public-private partnerships, international collaborations, focus on R&D, Chandak sees India as a key player in the global semiconductor and AI supply chain that can stimulate innovation and digitization through our work.