Making integrated chips in India

Making IC chips of current  capabilities now requires achieving extremities of design and manufecturing technologies. Starting from scratch here is impossible when one is in competition with giants like TSMC or even Samsung or Intel and needs infusion of scores of billion dollars and lead of decades. Only very few companies claim  designing an IC of scale  of current sizes and there are foundries (fabs) like TSMC who control 50 percent of manufacturing.  World is global village we need to collaborate and lure bigs into making fabs here rather trying to boast to go for impossible targets. Not immediately at least. We made real great step with Semiconductor Complex Limited in 1984 itself making chips up to 800 nm a good comparable achievement of those times. That was completely gutted in fire in 1989 and not revived successfully when we had more pressing national priorities like Ram Mandir and Mandal. Now we are ages behind. We would have been much higher in catching up. Now catching up does not need just rhetorics it needs building massive ecosystem starting from curriculum changes to incubating talent in universities and providing financial incentives to talented youth to stay back. And also this needing many billions of dollars investments without still achieving development and design capabilities of current scale, weighing it with our national priorities is logical step, every nation does that. What do we need first must be first in our priorities. No nation aims to source everything in house until other priorities are met. Diplomatic advocacy and  friendly business relations is also important component of self reliance. World is one large village and all need to work together unless one wants to lock oneself in. ‬