Rajeev Chandrasekhar Flags Off 2nd Semicon India FutureDESIGN Roadshow in Bengaluru
26 February 2023: Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Rajeev Chandrasekhar launched 2nd Semicon India FutureDESIGN Roadshow at IISc in Bengaluru with an aim to encourage startups, next-generation innovators, and business leaders to invest in semiconductor sector in India.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar said India is growing rapidly in global electronics value chains and rapid growth of digitalization, along with India’s high-growth digital and innovation economy, has created opportunities in the New World Order of Semiconductor and Electronics.
He spoke about three trends that are currently visible, “First, there has been an acceleration in digitalisation and governments around the world are digitising rapidly. Secondly, we are at an inflection point, and third, for the world, New India is becoming a trusted partner in terms of delivering talent, global products, digital products and services.”
Emphasising that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is relentlessly working for expanding opportunities for Young Indians he said Semicon India FutureDESIGN represents one such opportunity.
Outlining some of the initiatives that the Government has taken to support the semiconductor innovation ecosystem in India, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the India Semiconductor Research Centre (ISRC) which will be a private, industry led research centre will soon be launched and the Semiconductor Laboratory is being modernised and pivoted into research fab and will be co-located with the ISRC.
In addition, the Government plans to introduce an educational curriculum as part of the Future Skills programme, he said. “It has been developed in collaboration with industry experts and academics. A large number of colleges will have new degrees, new electives, and new certification programs in VLSI. We are actively working with fab companies to create on the job training type of internships for students in the semiconductor space,” he stressed.
The Minister also announced the launch of the ChipIN Centre at C-DAC India, Bangalore which will act as one stop centre to provide Semiconductor Design Tools, Fab access, Virtual Prototyping Hw Lab access to Fabless Chip Designers of the country. He also said that India AI Datasets program is going to be launched soon. It will be the world’s largest datasets program which will in turn catalyse the Intelligent compute, AI compute, device and the system design ecosystem, he added.
