{"id":1039120,"date":"2026-09-28T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039120"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:22:27","slug":"ai-semiconductors-quantum-tech-next-major-frontier-for-india-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/28\/ai-semiconductors-quantum-tech-next-major-frontier-for-india-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, semiconductors, quantum tech next major frontier for India: Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday called for greater investment in AI infrastructure, semiconductors and quantum technology, stressing that these would be the next major frontier for India. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a fireside chat organised by the IIT Madras Alumni Association here, she said India needed to accelerate efforts to build the hardware, skills and institutional ecosystem required to harness these emerging technologies. \u201cThings are happening in India in AI, but the magazines and newspapers largely from abroad \u2013 Oh, India\u2019s missed the AI bus,\u201d Sitharaman said,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday called for greater investment in AI infrastructure, semiconductors and quantum technology, stressing that these would be the next major frontier for India. Speaking at a fireside chat organised by the IIT Madras Alumni Association here, she said India needed to accelerate efforts to build the hardware, skills and institutional ecosystem required to harness these emerging technologies. \u201cThings are happening in India in AI, but the magazines and newspapers largely from abroad \u2013 Oh, India\u2019s missed the AI bus,\u201d Sitharaman said,<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039120","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=1039120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039142,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039120\/revisions\/1039142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}