Once India’s chip ambition got burnt. Now it’s being revived

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday used his 79th Independence Day address from the Red Fort to declare that “by the end of this very year, a Made in India chip, built in India by the people of India, will arrive in the market”. He underlined India’s renewed focus on semiconductor manufacturing, while pointing to decades of missed opportunities in the sector. “When we talk about different dimensions of technology, I want to draw your attention. Let me take semiconductors as an example… files related to semiconductors started moving 50–60 years ago… but the idea was stalled, delayed, and blocked,” PM Modi said at Red Fort.