although india is also water-stressed, we do have a long coastline, and desalination may be feasible though expensive. india desperately needs a chip industry and a few fabs. esp now that intel has been beaten at the process level by TSMC and samsung, it's time to look at how they did it, and also, in parallel, encourage a chip design industry in india using either ARM or RISC-V. but there's no substitute for physical fabs in india, esp for defense and other critical application.
there's of course the increasing threat of a shooting war in taiwan as xi goes full monty in the wake of biden feebleness.
btw, it was very rude of biden to call for a 'china-free' supply chain without including india in the list of possible partners.
3 comments:
1. "very rude of biden to call for a 'china-free' supply chain without including india in the list" --- currently, India has nothing of value to offer.
2. "Beijing recognizes, as the US once did, that basic research cannot be supported entirely by the market and the private sector and instead must be supported by the public. China’s investments have been enormous. By some estimates, China’s government-funded R&D also already exceeds U.S. federal R&D spending".
3. India should explore EDA market -- software tools for chip industry. Use our core strength in software to foray into chip industry
1. assembly operations, which is mostly what china has too.
2. ok, i agree india must invest more and better.
3. pure chip design isn't enough. need to design for manufacturability and for that manufacturing knowledge is needed locally
If we are dreaming of semiconductors, we should go all in. And what better way than to start with our area-of-strength -- software?
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