Bricks without blueprints: The cost of India’s silicon dependency

While India is pouring concrete in Odisha but the rules for what goes inside those factories are redrafted here in Washington.

From Gujarat to Odisha, new semiconductor packaging plants, assembly lines, and data centers are rising across the country. Every inauguration is presented as evidence that India has entered the front rank of technological powers. In New Delhi, with a message that the India’s age of silicon has arrived.