{"id":1029549,"date":"2026-08-19T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029549"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:52:02","slug":"trusted-silicon-is-non-negotiable-for-defence-india-needs-semiconductor-sovereignty-bharat-electronics-hari-kumar-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/trusted-silicon-is-non-negotiable-for-defence-india-needs-semiconductor-sovereignty-bharat-electronics-hari-kumar-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Trusted silicon is non-negotiable for defence; India needs semiconductor sovereignty: Bharat Electronics&#8217; Hari Kumar R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India\u2019s semiconductor ambitions have moved beyond an economic or technological opportunity to become a strategic imperative, particularly for defence and critical infrastructure, according to Hari Kumar R, director (R&amp;D), Bharat Electronics. <\/p>\n<p>Delivering a keynote address at the ETElectronicsWorld Design &amp; Verification Summit 2026 in Bengaluru, Kumar said trusted silicon has become non-negotiable for defence organisations because semiconductors increasingly underpin systems on which soldiers and national security depend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India\u2019s semiconductor ambitions have moved beyond an economic or technological opportunity to become a strategic imperative, particularly for defence and critical infrastructure, according to Hari Kumar R, director (R&amp;D), Bharat Electronics. Delivering a keynote address at the ETElectronicsWorld Design &amp; Verification Summit 2026 in Bengaluru, Kumar said trusted silicon has become non-negotiable for defence organisations because semiconductors increasingly underpin systems on which soldiers and national security depend.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029549","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=1029549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029567,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029549\/revisions\/1029567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}