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35 plants under PLI scheme start today. India has 90% dependence of 35 active pharmaceuticals ingredients, manufacturing of 35 active pharmaceuticals ingredients which have been imported earlier are now started in India under the PLI scheme:Union health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
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Totally AWESOME news !
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Cyrano wrote:Totally AWESOME news !
As soon as that Dr. Harsh Vardhan was removed and Malaviya was made Health minister, he has been doing great both improving the infrastructure of all the hospitals/COVID vaccination and now this. Moron Libtards were making fun of his English.

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Make in India:

Apple first started manufacturing iPhones in India in 2017, with iPhone SE.

Now, Apple confirmed it has started manufacturing its top-selling iPhone 13 smartphone in India.
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https://swarajyamag.com/tech/father-of- ... sory-panel
'Father Of Pentium Chip' Vinod Dham, MIMO Wireless Tech Inventor Paulraj Among Members Of Govt's Semicon India Advisory Panel
In a bid to make India a global leader in Semiconductor manufacturing, design and innovation, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has formed an advisory committee of experts, comprising of senior government officials, established academicians as well as industry and domain experts.

The Union Cabinet on 15 December last year had approved the comprehensive Semicon India programme for the development of a sustainable semiconductor and display ecosystem in the country on 15.12.21.

A specialized and dedicated “India Semiconductor Mission (ISM)” has been set up within Digital India Corporation to drive India’s strategies for developing semiconductors and display ecosystem.

The newly formed Advisory Committee will steer the objectives in a structured, efficient, and strategic manner, and provide necessary guidance to the ISM executives.

It will also provide insights and suggestions to develop a sustainable semiconductor and display ecosystem in India.
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March WPI hits a record high 14.55%. The laughable, disney fantasy 6.9% retail inflation too will have to be set upwards in April thanks to WPI. FM probably is going for a personal record to be the last among G20 nations to begin rising the interest rates, at this point many will just be happy if madamji just acknowledges we have a inflation problem especially of the bare necessities.
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Does the FM raise interest rates ?

Btw, isn't this offtopic for this thread?
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The RBI is fully owned by the Govt. of India and comes under direct ownership of the Ministry of Finance, so yes, the FM is responsible for managing the inflation and setting interest rates using the levers available to the central bank. The RBI is mandated by law to manage monetary policy to keep inflation rates within the target set by the Finance Ministry within 2% variance. If the RBI misses the target inflation rate for 3 quarters then they are by law mandated to take corrective action. The RBI finally acknowledged in its last policy meeting on April 8th that there is risk of inflation and updated its inflation forecast to 5.7% ( your average consumer is likely to see 4x to 5x that number as usual).

WPI is the input tracker that tracks all manufactured goods before retail, so it is absolutely pertinent to this thread.
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Three years ago, #SterliteCopper plant in #Thoothukudi was closed down after violent agitation.

India was reduced from an exporter of copper to an importer.

Around one lakh families lost their livelihood.

How did this happen? What is the truth?

A thread (1/8) https://t.co/PAJVIhW7cR

1. Protestors accused plant of environment pollution. But expert study suggests otherwise.

Propaganda : Plant wastes pollute environment

Reality : No incident of unhygienic waste disposal reported. Waste generated are used in cement production, road construction etc. (2/8) https://t.co/uI62FyppEg

Propaganda: High level of SO2 emitted by plant.

Reality : Study conducted by TNPCB repudiated the claim. SO2 is not discharged but used as raw material for manufacturing 'sulphuric acid'

Similarly claims about cancer, groundwater pollution etc. was also found exaggerated. (3/8) https://t.co/VZuePuLmon

2. Realization of mistake

▪ Locals reeling under unemployment created by closure and aggravated by pandemic have started petitioning for reopening of the plant.

▪ Survey reveals how people were misled by 'outsiders' into protests. (4/8) https://t.co/sSUOgs13Ms

3. Ecosystem

▪️ Maoist
▪️ Tamil Chauvinists like Vaiko
▪️ Anti-Development activists like SP Udaykumar
▪️ PFI
▪️Pseudo Environmentalists like N Jayaram & Fatima Babu
▪️ Tuticorin Diocese

And lurking in dark is CHINA

Purpose - To destroy India's self sufficienty in Copper (5/8) https://t.co/JCRHUQoSZ5

Detailed report on how the foreign ecosystem worked overtime to shut down 'Sterlite copper' an important industrial asset of India. (6/8)
https://t.co/3jzY2fTDEJ

4. 'Documentary' & bid to reignite protest

▪ Just when the chorus to reopen the plant started to grow, 'Pearl city massacre', documentary on Thoothukudi violence is being released.
▪ It's director MS Raj is know to have links with people with Maoist & LTTE background. (7/8) https://t.co/QonDebdTn4

Copper is indispensable to nation's economy.

And Sterlite plant produced 40% of India's Copper.

We will be coming up with more information exposing Anti-India/Anti Sterlite lobby.

Watch this space !! (8/8)

https://twitter.com/APF_Ind/status/1516 ... 1A45A&s=19
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India produces 120 MT crude steel in FY22: Steel Minister.
India produced 120 million tonne (MT) of crude steel during financial year ended March 31, 2022, Steel Minister Ram Chandra Prasad Singh has said.

At 120 MT, the output was about 18 per cent higher compared to the country's production in the preceding fiscal year.

According to official data, India produced around 102 MT steel in 2020-21.

"Steel sector in India has traversed a fascinating journey from a mere 1 MT at the time of independence to 120 MT in the last (2021-22) financial year," a steel ministry statement quoted Singh as saying at National Metallurgist Award 2021 on Wednesday.
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PLI scheme in action.

https://www.financialexpress.com/indust ... h/2484574/


Daikin lays foundation stone of its upcoming third mfg facility at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh
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Mega Manufacturing Facility Unveiled In Noida, To Produce 10 Million Hearables, Wearables And IoT Devices Annually
Zet Town India Pvt Ltd, a Zetwerk company, on Tuesday (17 May) unveiled its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Noida in Uttar Pradesh.

The plant was inaugurated by the UnionMinister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

The new facility will produce 10 million devices hearables, wearables and IoT devices annually

Spread out over an area of 50,000 sq.ft, the factory comprises 16 manufacturing lines with advanced testers and a world-class innovation lab for product development.
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'Have to create another Taiwan in India': Vedanta to finalise $20 billion chip unit site by next month
https://www.livemint.com/companies/news ... 88182.html
Vedanta will finalize a location for its $20 billion semiconductor and display plants in India by next month and expects to roll out the first chip product in two years, its chairman Anil Agarwal said. The oil-to-metals conglomerate is in talks with several Indian states on the unit's location. Vedanta has a total planned investment outlay of $20 billion for two separate units for chip and display manufacturing.

"You have to create another Taiwan in India," Agarwal told Reuters on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum, noting that India will have to focus on bringing the entire semiconductor ecosystem locally for it to be a global powerhouse.

"Foxconn is our technical partner. We may not take equity partner for the fab," Agarwal told Reuters, adding that the Taiwan-based Foxconn will have technical responsibility for the operation, from providing the tech to making semiconductors.
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Indian Tech & Infra. @IndianTechGuide

Apple phone maker 'Foxconn' chairman visits Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Maharastra to scout locations for investment. Foxconn planning to invest huge in India.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic ... rom-the-us

How the tables have turned! US lamenting on Taiwanese Foxconn investment that did not come and sorely jealous of India/Gujarat which is investing its own money to attract Foxconn to gain tech expertise and create jobs.

Bloomberg has really become bloomturd.
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India has cheapest manufacturing cost globally: Report.

India has been ranked as the nation with the cheapest manufacturing cost ahead of China and Vietnam, according to a report. According to the US News and World Report, out of 85 nations, India has bagged the 31st position in the overall Best Countries ranking.

India featured at the 37th spot in the 'Open for Business' category.

The report evaluates 85 countries across 73 attributes. Attributes are grouped into 10 sub-categories, including adventure, agility, entrepreneurship, open for business, social purpose and quality of life.

Under the open for business sub-category, India has scored 100 per cent when it comes to cheap manufacturing costs. But in 'favourable tax environment', it has scored 16.2 out of 100; 18.1 in the 'not corrupt' category and 3.5 in 'transparent government policies'.

Similarly, under the 'quality of life' segment, India has scored 1.9 in 'income equality'; 4.3 in 'safe'; 2.3 in 'well-developed public health system'; and 9.9 in 'economically stable' sub-parameter.

The government has taken steps such as rolling out production linked incentive schemes and reducing compliance burden with a view to make India a global manufacturing hub.

In the overall Best Countries ranking, Switzerland has topped the chart, followed by Germany, Canada, US and Sweden.

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... aign=cppst
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Moody's says India a bright spot in global steel demand
NEW DELHI, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Indian demand remains a bright spot in major steel markets as domestic consumption is seen growing at a "high single digit" rate over the next 12-15 months, a senior executive at Moody's Investors Service said on Monday.

India, the world's second-largest crude steel producer, posted 11.4% growth in finished steel consumption during April-October to 65.5 million tonnes.

"India remains the bright spot because the underlying steel demand still remains quite solid," Kaustubh Chaubal, a senior vice president at Moody's, told Reuters in an interview.
"It is one of the brighter spots when we compare with any other region, whether it is APAC, Europe or even the U.S."

In the coming months, a major catalyst for steel demand growth would be infrastructure investments ahead of India's national elections in 2024, Chaubal said.

However, most major steelmakers suffered during July-September due to a drop in prices and a global slowdown.
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https://www.businessworld.in/article/Am ... 22-458834/
American MQ9B Combat Drones Set To Be Assembled In India

Tri-service procurement of world’s most advanced drones leveraged for transfer of niche technologies to DRDO, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar tells Vishal Thapar in an exclusive interview
India has negotiated for local assembly of the world’s most advanced High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) combat and reconnaissance drone, the American MQ9B Sea/Sky Guardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). These are more capable follow-ons of the iconic Predator.

“Through assertive negotiations, instant acquisition proposal has been leveraged for assembly of at least 60 % of the quantity of aircraft proposed for procurement in India,” Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar told Businessworld in an exclusive interview.

A Tri-services case for the procurement of 30 MQ9B from the US under the Government-to-Government Foreign Military Sales (FMS) route is under process.
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https://twitter.com/IndianTechGuide/sta ... 0391880704
Indian Tech & Infra
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Singapore based 'PDG' to invest $1.5 billion in India to setup data centres in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi & Pune.
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https://twitter.com/dnystedt/status/1613082773337800705


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Taiwan's Powerchip (PSMC) will sign an agreement with India to help set up fabs and train workers, media report, citing Chairman Frank Huang, adding PSMC will use its experience setting up JVs in China in its work with India. #India #Taiwan #semiconductor
https://money.udn.com/money/story/5612/ ... om=edn_msg
Huang Chongren, chairman of wafer foundry PSMC (6770) , attended the Taiwan Advanced Automotive Technology Development Association today (11th), held a press conference for industry observation and suggestions, and stated for the first time that PSMC is ready to sign a cooperation agreement with the Indian government The agreement is to assist Indian and local large companies to set up factories and cultivate talents through the previous experience in setting up factories in joint ventures with mainland China.

According to data from research institutions, India has a huge semiconductor application market and is one of the largest electronics markets in the world. By 2025, the Indian semiconductor market will reach US$32.35 billion, growing at a compound annual rate of 10.1% from 2018 to 2025.

Huang Chongren pointed out today that from the trend of TSMC (2330) taking the lead in investing in the United States, Taiwan semiconductor companies must now be more dispersed and internationalized. For example, PSMC is preparing to cooperate with the Indian government to assist in training Indian engineer.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-india- ... 1673895652

https://archive.ph/D6Wuv

Can India Emerge as a Rival to China?
Manufacturing hasn’t been a strong suit, and technology alone won’t do the trick.
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https://analyticsindiamag.com/tata-eyes ... d-partner/
Tata Eyes Chip Manufacturing. Will PSMC be the Preferred Partner?
The Tata Group established its electronics manufacturing division, Tata Electronics, in 2020. Therefore, the company’s intent to enter the OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) space – the final, less intricate stage of chip fabrication – was well known. However, it was unclear if they would look to establish a full-fledged semiconductor fab in India. Putting speculation to rest, Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran told The Economist in September 2022 that it is weighing building a FAB in partnership with a foreign firm.
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Mind-boggling !
Which ever Indian co ventures into semiconductor mfg has fascinating mountains to climb!

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Ahead of India's laptop import curbs, PC and electronics manufacturing fell 32%
Ahead of India's laptop import curbs, PC and electronics manufacturing fell 32%
Domestic manufacturing of computers and other electronic goods contracted sharply in the lead-up to the government's unexpected import restrictions on laptops and related devices.

According to data released on August 11 by the statistics ministry, India's industrial growth declined more than expected to 3.7 percent in June from 5.3 percent in May. Analysts from Motilal Oswal Financial Services said the slowdown was "entirely led by the manufacturing sector" – whose output rose by only 3.1 percent year-on-year compared to 5.8 percent in May.

The performance of the manufacturing sector has an outsized impact on the headline industrial growth number as the sector accounts for more than three-fourths of the Index of Industrial Production.

Within the sector, production was lower in June in as many as 14 of the 23 industries compared to the same month last year. The decline was led by computer, electronic, and optical products, whose output was down 32 percent.

A little over a week before the release of the data, the Indian government restricted the import of laptops, tablets, personal computers, ultra-small form factor computers, and servers on August 3. While exemptions were provided, the free import of these goods would be permitted only against a licence.

An outcry followed and the government said a day later that it was delaying the implementation of these curbs by three months to November 1.

Also read: Why the government’s ‘Make in India’ move on laptops will hurt more than help

Boost for local?

The government has defended its decision, with Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar saying the move was not about imposing a licence raj but ensuring that the Indian tech eco-system used only trusted parts and India's dependence on imports was reduced and domestic manufacturing increased.

Also Read: Rajeev Chandrashekhar says import curbs on laptops to boost domestic manufacturing

"This is certainly not an attempt to go back to the licence raj. As we increase the digitisation of our economy, we certainly want to make sure that the elements of hardware that are going into the digital economy are all monitored and come from trusted sources," Chandrasekhar told Moneycontrol in an interview on August 10. "In hindsight, this should not have been called curbs or licensing. This should have been called more of an import management system."

Whatever it may be called, the performance of Indian manufacturing has been there for all to see for some time now. The 32 percent decline in the manufacture of computer, electronic, and optical products in June was not a new phenomenon – it was the eighth time in nine months that production in this segment had fallen when compared to the same month last year.

After posting an 11.1 percent increase in 2021-22 as a whole, the output of computer, electronic, and optical products fell by 6.4 percent in 2022-23. In the first three months of 2023-24, it is down 18.6 percent.

Demand slump

The fall in manufacturing of computer, electronic, and optical products is reflected in the broader consumer durables category. In June, the output of consumer durables fell 6.9 percent after rising for the first time in six months in May. According to India Ratings, the performance of consumer durables points to the "impact of inflation and weak consumption demand in the economy".

The bad June numbers were nothing new. After rising by a mere 0.6 percent in 2022-23, the production of consumer durables is down 2.8 percent in April-June 2023.

Has India been substituting local production with imports? Interestingly, in 2022-23, the value of personal computers imported fell by 27.6 percent to $5.34 billion. And this was not because foreign PCs became cheaper – the number imported was down 31.8 percent from 2021-22.
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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walmart is importing more goods to the United States from India and reducing its reliance upon China as it looks to cut costs and diversify its supply chain, data seen by Reuters shows.

The world's largest retailer shipped one quarter of its U.S. imports from India between January and August this year, according to bill of lading figures shared with Reuters by data firm Import Yeti. That compared with just 2% in 2018.
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India is on the journey of Semiconductor manufacturing, which is highly expensive and intricate. Even if Indian govt does everything to build an ecosystem for chip manufacturing, the participant countries in chip designing are very few, and they are not ready to give up their position in the supply chain even partially, to any other countries in the world. Many nations have tried to replicate chip manufacturing. Initially Soviet Union wanted to replicate TexasInstruments chip and set up a process to do so. That effort went nowhere. Japan, Korea and Taiwan started from the very bottom to build up capability. They spent tons of money to get to where they are. There was no VC money, instead govts and large companies sponsored the build up.

India has some advantages: many chip designs are done in India for large companies like Intel, Nvidia, TI, etc. However these are designs on computers, which undergo several iterations for testing various conditions. Even after building the new designs, a small manufacturing run is used for testing and some glitches are found resulting in another iteration of design. The manufacturing process is highly stringent requiring clean rooms, stable power/water and clean foundry floor operations. The machines that run on the foundry are supplied by niche vendors who understand their machines and know what to tweak and fix during a run. The whole idea is to get to yields in 80-90% range with little wastage (those that do not pass tests). The trick is to have excellent machines working well on the foundry floor.

At a high level, there is value in chip design (which India has the talent pool), good vendor machines that get you to high yields (India is not anywhere in the scene) and good environment for plant / good operators (which India needs to build up over time). It is abundantly clear that getting to manufacturing is a tricky journey that India is undertaking.

What you learn in schools/colleges is pure theory and has nothing to do with practical stuff, e.g. the surface of a silicon wafer is not perfectly flat, it is an undulating curve. The curve needs to be figured out for each wafer (KLA-Tencor machines do this), next the chemical dopants are adjusted for the curve. This is done in layers and is quite tricky since one small mistake implies ditching the wafer. Next come process for cutting, packaging, and then the final automated test suite. The microchips from say Intel undergo tests accumulative i.e. from version 1 to version n of the same family of x86 architecture - all of them are run, which take time and the output is properly "binned out".

Why 'Chip Wars' Author Chris Miller Says India Has An Edge In The Semiconductor Industry.

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Dr. Rohan "Murty" abandoned his Classics something something project?!
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Micron's Gujarat plant to roll out first 'Made In India' memory chip in 2024: Ashwini Vasishnaw

Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Indian Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, announced that Micron, a leading semiconductor manufacturing company, is preparing to launch its first Made-in-India memory chip at the Vibrant Gujarat 2024 event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chWbQT_qfS8

Listen To Micron Tech CEO Sanjay Mehrotra Talk About Progress Of His Semiconductor Setup In Gujarat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kr_E1nQP4
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Adani Group's $1.2 Billion Kutch Copper Project In Gujarat To Start Operations From March 2024
The first phase of Adani Group's $1.2-billion copper manufacturing facility at Mundra in Gujarat will start operations by March-end.

Touted as the world's largest single-location copper manufacturing plant, the facility will help cut India's dependence on imports and strengthen the country's shift towards electric vehicles (EVs) and renewables.

Kutch Copper Limited (KCL), a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL) is setting up a greenfield copper refinery project for the production of refined copper, with a capacity of 1 million tonne per annum (mtpa) in two phases.

While the first phase of the project with a capacity of 0.5 million tonnes per annum will be operational by March 2024, full-scale 1 million tonnes capacity will be achieved by FY29 (March 2029).

Earlier in June 2022, the KCL had achieved financial closure for the first phase, by executing a financing document with a consortium of banks led by State Bank of India for the syndicated club loan.

The consortium of banks including Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank, EXIM Bank of India, Indian Bank, Punjab National Bank, and Bank of Maharashtra, had sanctioned the entire debt requirement of Rs 6,071 crore for Phase-1 of the KCL Project.

As per details, the plant will produce 500,000 tonnes of refined copper per annum in Phase I with byproducts, nearly 25 tonnes of gold, 250 tonnes of silver, 1.5 million tonnes of sulphuric acid, and 250,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid. The Phase II expansion will increase the refined copper capacity up to 1 million tonnes per annum.

Rising Copper Import

Copper is the third most used industrial metal, after steel and aluminium.

The government's emphasis on infrastructure development, combined with a robust resurgence in economic activities across various sectors such as real estate, consumer durables, and electric vehicle manufacturing, has significantly boosted the demand for the red metal.

India used to be a net exporter of copper until FY18, when the Tamil Nadu based Vedanta-owned Sterlite Copper was shut down and since then, the country has become a net copper importer for the fifth year in a row.

The country’s copper import in FY21 and FY22 stood at 238,483 tonne and 238,694 tonne respectively. However, copper imports of 275,341 tonne in FY23 were still lower than the pre-Covid high of 357,423 tonne recorded in FY20.

The strategically located Adani’s copper plant at Mundra on the west coast, has the potential to alleviate India’s supply concerns and comes close on the heels of Vedanta‘s effort to restart a long-shuttered 400,000 tonnes plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu.

Sources said the location of Mundra provides the additional advantage of access to lower cost and uninterrupted energy supply and logistical infrastructure to cater to domestic and international demand.

On the operational front, the company is engaged in long-term supply agreements for the key raw material — copper concentrate.

This, along with strategic location and integrated value chain advantage, will help Kutch Copper to be one of the most sustainable and lowest-cost copper producers in the world, according to sources.
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India's Semiconductor Mission is a comprehensive and ambitious initiative aimed at developing the entire ecosystem of semiconductor manufacturing. India has a holistic focus on designing to developing chips and talent development.

World Economic Forum 2024 - ‘The battle for chips’ session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SC1mFe0Y_k

Luckily we have someone like mantriji Ashwini Vaishnav, IIT K alumni, talking sensibly and in calming tone explaining the techno-savvy subject of semiconductor manufacturing in a brilliant skillful articulation of India's policy & point of view. Design engineering is the high value and India has an army of such people (300,000) designing chips for multinational companies. India is first conquering the 28 nm chip manufacturing arena before moving to 7 nm or 2 nm arena.

All of this in the context of a loud mouth jumpy character (he did work for NYT, figures!) asking the questions. We have netherland (ASML) representative as part of the panel. ASML sources parts from other Euro nations like Germany's Zeiss for optics/optoelectronics. The US has an Indian origin Dr. Arthi Prabhakar on the panel.
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https://m.economictimes.com/news/india/ ... 509606.cms

India’s true manufacturing rival is not China, it's someone else
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Israel's Tower Semiconductor Proposes $8 Bn Chip Facility in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdl35Ywxds8
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Modi govt greenlights Tata's semiconductor fab in Gujarat's Dholera: Details here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyGeanoy-hs
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Ashwini Vaishnaw in ‘special class’ explains development of India’s semiconductor ecosystem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-N1d2ZqvOo
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Dr Mansukh Mandaviya Inaugurates 27 Greenfield Bulk Drug Park projects and 13 Greenfield Manufacturing Plants for Medical Devices under the PLI Scheme

This one didn't get much media coverage , all these will play major role to make India a Global Pharmacy.
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