What will it take to power the future of semiconductors?
Strategic government incentives, advanced infrastructure, and a skilled workforce are crucial to powering the semiconductor industry's future. Meeting the growing global demand for chips and establishing semiconductors as the foundation of tomorrow's technologies requires bold action - But how can firms foster a collaborative ecosystem and prioritize the right investments to make this possible?
Hitesh Garg, Parnika Pavanram, Navin Bishnoi, Malini Narayanamoorthi, and Vijaykumar HEGDE discussed these and more in a riveting session. See the snapshot below and catch the full video here: https://bit.ly/3D3jz6E#Semiconductor#innovation#tech
What we need is at least more and more system thinking. So we are very good in designing chips. We are very good in manufacturing like OEMs. We see Tatas, Mahindra, big OEMs are in India, but are all the designs done in India? Do we have the PCB manufacturing of those system done in India? So that's the opportunity that we need to Click to gain. I would say good level of you can say market share in this segment while the existing policy is actually. Valid till 2025 September. Because of the pace at which the industry and the ecosystem has grown and given a lot of changes on the geopolitical front, the state is also coming out with a new version of the electronics policy with us dedicated focus on the semiconductor. What? Because the government is beginning to understand that even within semiconductors there are so many different specifications for each of the sub sectors. Long back when we started doing the design, there was introduction of these softwares. LED and CAD and many people told me that Naveen, you might not have a job because EDA CAD will do the push button and things will happen. So they said that you might write the specs in a spreadsheet or a PowerPoint and then you'll get a silicon out of it, right? I'm still here working and I have thousands and thousands of engineer. AI is accelerating that development, but is also asking us to do much more innovation at a faster pace. The AI itself demands much more electronics and to do that we need more chips, we need more functionalities. We need more smart intelligence in it. And there's just expanding the opportunities or the jobs that I had for us. If you took, I don't know, 10 years ago, India was very much treated like an augmentation. And when I say augmentation. We'll take care of the architecture from North America. We'll take care of the core design. If you can just verify the design and make sure it looks good in India, that was it. And that has shifted. That shift requires our talent to also shift the way we train our talent. We have noted few opportunities, which I quoted and few others as well. And I believe there's a lot of coordination, collaboration between the government, the industry, as well as the some of the startups and other players from the ecosystem here. Thanks a lot once again.
