New Delhi: In a bold demonstration of India’s technological ambitions, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw unveiled a palm-sized model of a homegrown semiconductor wafer, highlighting the nation’s growing capabilities in chip design and digital innovation. Speaking at a technology summit in Delhi, the Minister emphasized that semiconductors, alongside initiatives in digital credit, high-speed mobile connectivity, and large language models (LLMs), are central to India’s digital-led growth story.

Vaishnaw pointed out that India now hosts 20 percent of the world’s design engineering talent, allowing the country to produce chips at 2-nanometer technology, the most advanced and complex in the world. “Earlier it used to be 5 or 7 nanometers. Today, 2-nanometer chips are being designed in India,”

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