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India's Chip Moment: The Rise of India's Semiconductor Startups

India is often cited as having about 20% of the world's semiconductor design engineers. Until recently, almost none of them were designing chips for Indian companies. That is now changing, and fast. India's semiconductor moment is the shift from supplying design engineers to the world's chip companies to building Indian-owned chip products and the factories to make them. Government programmes (the India Semiconductor Mission and …

Thinking of Joining a Semiconductor Startup? Questions to Ask First

Before joining a semiconductor startup, ask whether it is worth betting the next few years of your career on, not only whether it is exciting. Check four things: a realistic strategy and roadmap, credible leadership, enough funding to reach the next milestone, and a hiring plan that matches the work. The Startup Evaluation Quiz on this blog turns those checks into a structured set of questions you can answer before you accept an offer. This pos…

Spotlight on TechSimplifiedTV: Semiconductor Videos, Blog and Podcast

TechSimplifiedTV is an Indian semiconductor education platform that explains VLSI and chip design through three channels: a YouTube channel, the blog TechSimplifiedTV.in, and The Semiconductor Podcast (TSP). It aims to connect what students learn in college with what engineers do in industry. This post profiles the platform, the person behind it, and what each channel offers. Key takeaways TechSimplifiedTV covers VLSI, chip verification, f…

Tesla's Semiconductor Partnerships in India and Supply Chain Resilience

As of April 2025, Tesla was reported to be talking to three Indian semiconductor ventures, Tata Electronics, Micron's assembly and test plant in Gujarat and CG Semi, about sourcing chips for its global operations. The aim is to reduce its dependence on China and Taiwan for mature-node chips used in battery management, vehicle control and infotainment. For India, a customer of Tesla's scale would be a strong signal that its new fabs and a…

SiliconAuto: Foxconn and Stellantis JV Opens India Design Centre

News, 24 September 2024, with an update added in November 2026. SiliconAuto, the automotive chip joint venture of Stellantis and Foxconn (Hon Hai Technology Group), opened its India Design Center on Bangalore's Outer Ring Road on 23 September 2024. The centre is its first semiconductor research and development site in India and works on chip and SoC design for electric vehicles (EVs), autonomous driving and connected cars. SiliconAuto was …

Company Spotlight: SiliconAuto, the Stellantis and Foxconn Chip JV

SiliconAuto is a joint venture between carmaker Stellantis and electronics manufacturer Foxconn (Hon Hai), set up to design and sell semiconductors for the automotive industry. Announced in June 2023 as an equally owned company headquartered in the Netherlands, it was planned to start supplying chips to Stellantis, Foxconn and other customers from 2026. This spotlight was first published in March 2024; a short update from the company's own …

From Chips to Nation-Building: India's $15.2 Billion Semiconductor Leap

On 29 February 2024 the Union Cabinet approved three more semiconductor units under the India Semiconductor Mission, with a combined investment of Rs 1.26 lakh crore (about $15.2 billion at the exchange rate of the time). They are India's first commercial wafer fab, a Tata Electronics plant at Dholera, Gujarat, built with Taiwan's PSMC, and two assembly and test plants: Tata's unit at Morigaon, Assam and CG Power's unit at Sanand…

Why Chip War Author Chris Miller Says India Has an Edge in Chips

Thanks for supporting us. Please consider adding your comments, Subscribe and Share. Pagehits: 0 Why does Chip War author Chris Miller think India has an edge in the semiconductor industry? In this December 2023 conversation with Soroco founder Rohan Murty at the Global AI Conclave, hosted by Moneycontrol and CNBC-TV18, Miller discusses where India stands as chips become a matter of national strategy. The case usually made for India rests…

India's Import Curbs on Laptops (2023): What Changed and What It Means

In August 2023 India moved laptops, tablets, all-in-one PCs, ultra small form factor computers and servers (tariff heading HSN 8471) into the "restricted" import category, so that each import needed a government authorisation. The stated aim was to grow domestic manufacturing, cut the electronics trade deficit and reduce dependence on a few source countries, chiefly China. This post was written in September 2023, while the rules were…

Job: Senior Verification Engineer at Intel Mobile Communications (2012)

This opening is in Bangalore, India and the company is looking forward to close it at the earliest Job Description: 1. About 5-7 years of experience in functional verification with at least 3-4 years in HVL's like E language/specman and System Verilog. 2. Good experience at both module and sub-system/SOC level verification 3. Good knowledge of Verilog/VHDL 4. Good knowledge of UVM/eRM methodology 5. Should have developed complete test ben…

Intel Mobile Communications India: Job Openings (2011)

Intel Looks at a Sub-Atom Chip from India for Affordable PCs (2010)

Praveen Vishakantaiah, president of Intel India, said one innovation in the area of frugal engineering could soon be in the market. "With HCL, we have launched a nettop with a battery backup in the power adaptor. It's a three hour backup that helps in areas that do not have continuous power supply. The innovation was in the adaptor; if we had done it in the nettop, it would have raised the cost significantly," he said. The past d…