{"id":1037104,"date":"2026-09-21T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037104"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:30:13","slug":"indias-semiconductor-rise-could-invite-geopolitical-risks-it-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/indias-semiconductor-rise-could-invite-geopolitical-risks-it-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s semiconductor rise could invite geopolitical risks: IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s growing semiconductor heft could be seen as a &#8220;threat&#8221; by established interests in the global chip value chain, and the industry must guard against cyberattacks and other disruptions from those opposed to the country&#8217;s rise, Minister for Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, has said. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview to PTI, Vaishnaw said he has cautioned the industry in clear terms to keep a constant vigil as India is now emerging as a country that has the capability to design and manufacture chips, a position that will &#8220;obviously&#8221; be seen as a threat by many other established interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s growing semiconductor heft could be seen as a &#8220;threat&#8221; by established interests in the global chip value chain, and the industry must guard against cyberattacks and other disruptions from those opposed to the country&#8217;s rise, Minister for Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, has said. In an interview to PTI, Vaishnaw said he has cautioned the industry in clear terms to keep a constant vigil as India is now emerging as a country that has the capability to design and manufacture chips, a position that will &#8220;obviously&#8221; be seen as a threat by many other established interests.<\/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-1037104","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\/1037104","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=1037104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037128,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037104\/revisions\/1037128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}