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   7th Jan 09

India will emerge into leading position in semiconductor market

Everybody in the semiconductor industry talking that, India has talent pool. India is growing mainly due to its talent. The key speakers at ongoing (Jan 5-8 2009) VLSI conference at Delhi, also concluding that, India has the key enablers to play leading role in semiconductor market.
People have selected and studied electronics engineering, so they have the task to excel in this field, Engineers who are not able grasp the silicon quite well have moved over to application software areas. But the engineers who are bitten by the power of semiconductor have put all the effort to grow their career in VLSI. Few are branched out to embedded, which is little easier to learn and provide more job opportunities but the focused rest are into the tough VLSI zone.

These engineers who have preferred VLSI have grown in their career by taking jobs offered by Multi National Companies (MNCs) like Freescale, Intel, NXP ….. In fact there are no more than couple of pure Indian VLSI companies. However there are quite a lot of less risk taking outsourcing companies in India who sell VLSI design services more than a product.

Indian VLSI engineers have developed complete products out of their Indian Labs of MNC companies they are working for. The same engineers can develop completely made in India chips.

What has to be done by the Indian industry to achieve this goal are,

Cash rich Indian companies (Wipro, Infosys, Reliance, Tata …) should invest into this area. Semiconductor needs huge investment. The risk is so high in semiconductor industry timid investors are strictly prohibited.

VLSI design gurus should turn into brave entrepreneurs in this challenging VLSI field. The genius engineers working for others should sacrifice high paid jobs and the MNC comforts for entrepreneurial cause.

Indian mainstream media thinks technology means Infosys and Wipro. These companies are called tech companies not due to their electronics engineering capabilities but for their business application software packages and services.
Atleast Wipro has major stake in electronics engineering but many newborn fast growing Indian tech companies are least interested in this domain. The reason is, the risks are higher and returns are no way comparable to business software outsourcing. So media has to focus equally on engineering part of IT along with services.

India definitely needs a latest sub nano meter (nm) semiconductor fab on urgent basis. Once we have a fab, which makes chips exclusively for local market, it adds strategic strength to the industry.

Government has to realize the long-term benefits of thriving semiconductor industry and provide the necessary infrastructure. The public sector companies such as ISRO, BEL, and BHEL would join hands with private and academia to find out the ways to boost the growth of semiconductor industry.

Semiconductor manufactoring requires experts from mechanical, chemical, optical and such core engineering branches to design, maintain and operate IC fabrications equipments. There need to be synergy between multi-disciplines of engineering. In India, we need to improve a lot in establishing relationship between different branches of engineering.

Finally what drives is growing domestic market. This alone will trigger every other thing for growth. So it's for Indian engineers and businesses to get involved in shaping the Indian semiconductor industry rather than handing over to offshore companies.

 



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