{"id":1036941,"date":"2026-09-19T08:56:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036941"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:45:44","slug":"semicon-india-2026-must-advance-from-engineering-to-innovation-infosys-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/19\/semicon-india-2026-must-advance-from-engineering-to-innovation-infosys-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"SEMICON INDIA 2026: Must advance from engineering to innovation: Infosys executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India now has a \u201conce-in-a-generation demand window\u201d in the semiconductor segment and must capitalise on the massive opportunity to progress from \u201cengineered in India\u201d to \u201cinvent in India,\u201d said Vikram Meghal, senior vice president of engineering at Infosys. Speaking at Semicon India conclave in New Delhi, he said  innovation in the chip ecosystem is where the maximum value lies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI data centre spend is projected to reach $6.7 trillion in the next few years, and 50% of that spend is going to be compute, memory, and networking chips,\u201d Meghal said, adding that India could fill the gap globally in the value chain due to increasing geopolitical turbulence and a booming demand environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India now has a \u201conce-in-a-generation demand window\u201d in the semiconductor segment and must capitalise on the massive opportunity to progress from \u201cengineered in India\u201d to \u201cinvent in India,\u201d said Vikram Meghal, senior vice president of engineering at Infosys. Speaking at Semicon India conclave in New Delhi, he said innovation in the chip ecosystem is where the maximum value lies. \u201cAI data centre spend is projected to reach $6.7 trillion in the next few years, and 50% of that spend is going to be compute, memory, and networking chips,\u201d Meghal said, adding that India could fill the gap globally in the [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036941","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=1036941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036960,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036941\/revisions\/1036960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}