{"id":1017435,"date":"2026-06-29T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017435"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:59:38","slug":"as-digital-india-turns-11-govt-bets-on-ai-semiconductors-to-drive-next-growth-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/as-digital-india-turns-11-govt-bets-on-ai-semiconductors-to-drive-next-growth-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"As Digital India turns 11, govt bets on AI, semiconductors to drive next growth phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): As the Digital India programme completes 11 years on July 1, the government on Saturday highlighted a shift in its focus towards artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor manufacturing, saying it has approved investments worth Rs 1.64 lakh crore across 12 semiconductor projects while building a national AI ecosystem backed by over 45,000 GPUs. <\/p>\n<p>According to a Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) release, Digital India is entering its next phase with a stronger focus on frontier technologies after spending the past decade expanding digital infrastructure, financial inclusion and citizen services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): As the Digital India programme completes 11 years on July 1, the government on Saturday highlighted a shift in its focus towards artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor manufacturing, saying it has approved investments worth Rs 1.64 lakh crore across 12 semiconductor projects while building a national AI ecosystem backed by over 45,000 GPUs. According to a Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) release, Digital India is entering its next phase with a stronger focus on frontier technologies after spending the past decade expanding digital infrastructure, financial inclusion and citizen services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017467,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017435\/revisions\/1017467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}