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India is making important advancement successful the semiconductor manufacturing design, though a caller industry, the full ecosystem is getting acceptable successful the country, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and IT successful Bengaluru connected Saturday (February 7, 2026).
Commenting connected the advancement the state has been making successful the sector, Minister Vaishnaw, portion releasing the caller 2-nanometre Qualcomm chip successful Bengaluru, said the developments marked a alteration successful India’s earlier relation arsenic a bundle work supplier and a back-office to an end-to-end semiconductor merchandise plan and improvement hub.
“Today, we unveiled the two-nanometre wafer, two-nanometre spot astatine Qualcomm. This is portion of a bid of developments wherever companies are present designing successful the state to make the industry,” the Minister said, adding that the announcement of the 2-nanometre spot portion chopped by Qualcomm besides indicated however planetary firms were present trusting India with their astir precocious semiconductor work.
Each spot carried supercomputing power, with astir 20–30 cardinal transistors per dice (silicon). That benignant of density allowed a GPU and a CPU to beryllium wrong a tiny chip, Mr. Vaishnaw elaborated, showing the wafer to the media. “The last module tin relation arsenic an AI machine crossed devices: desktops and cameras to routers, automobiles, trains, aircraft, networking instrumentality and concern systems etc supporting borderline computing and AI-led precocious show computing applications,” helium said.
Later speaking astatine a property conference, the Minister said, this breakthrough placed India firmly successful the league of countries moving connected cutting-edge spot design, alongside companies specified arsenic AMD that person already showcased specified capabilities.
“Data centres are going to beryllium a large maturation travel successful the coming years. So far, we person committed $70 cardinal dollars successful investments, with caller announcements the fig volition beryllium $90 billion,” the Minister said. Semiconductors were a semipermanent nationalist task which has a scope for a multi-decade travel and based connected manufacture discussions, helium said the investments could further emergence successful the coming years and whitethorn transcend $200 cardinal arsenic AI adoption accelerates, helium indicated.
On endowment preparedness, Mr. Vaishnaw said, nether the Semicon 1.0 mission, the authorities had acceptable a people of grooming 85,000 semiconductor professionals implicit 10 years. In 4 years, immoderate 67,000 semiconductor engineers were trained. Students successful immoderate 315 universities and colleges person entree to physics automation tools and were actively progressive successful designing chips, helium added.
