{"id":1036556,"date":"2026-09-18T08:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036556"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:00:08","slug":"semicon-india-2026-indias-chip-story-has-moved-from-files-to-factories-says-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/semicon-india-2026-indias-chip-story-has-moved-from-files-to-factories-says-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"SEMICON India 2026: India\u2019s chip story has moved from files to factories, says PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s semiconductor push is moving from project announcements and construction to commercial production, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as he inaugurated SEMICON India 2026 and called for more private-sector investment in research and development. <\/p>\n<p>Modi said the annual semiconductor event had evolved with the industry. \u201cWhen the first edition was held, we discussed policy. In the subsequent editions, the discussion moved forward. We began discussing projects, including signing of files and laying foundation stones. Last year, we started discussing pilot lines and test chips, and talked about the first samples coming out of India&#8217;s units.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s semiconductor push is moving from project announcements and construction to commercial production, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as he inaugurated SEMICON India 2026 and called for more private-sector investment in research and development. Modi said the annual semiconductor event had evolved with the industry. \u201cWhen the first edition was held, we discussed policy. In the subsequent editions, the discussion moved forward. We began discussing projects, including signing of files and laying foundation stones. Last year, we started discussing pilot lines and test chips, and talked about the first samples coming out of India&#8217;s units.\u201d<\/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-1036556","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\/1036556","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=1036556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036575,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036556\/revisions\/1036575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}