I repeated the Semiconductor Technology Primers at the encouragement of Dr Sangeeta Semwal at Ministry of Electronics & IT – and Invest India teams. The backdrop is the Indian aspiration for enabling its semiconductor ecosystem – driven partly by … Continued
Government of India has announced its new Expression of Interest for a Semiconductor Fab with a mixed response and a lot of media interest over the recent weeks. Another subtle move has been the preparation of a detailed project report … Continued
CONTENT PLAN : ATMP- PRIMER WORKSHOP ELCINA-MEITY : 9TH OCTOBER, 2020 Continuing on the knowledge workshop from last week, this session briefly touched the semiconductor industry – and key trends and drivers into the decade of 2020 -and then dived … Continued
Content Plan: Semiconductor Primer Workshop with MEITY & ELCINA Sometime back, Mr.Saurabh Gaur, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & IT, asked me to deliver a Semiconductor Primer for the Ministry of Electronics& IT. I worked with ELCINA to prepare and … Continued
With Dr.Sandeep Verma, Secretary, SERB. On 15th January, JC from Intel invited me to attend a DST/SERB workshop on the FIRE – Fund for Industrial Research Engagement. The pioneering initiative by SERB/DST visualises a shared fund of 50:50 by industry and … Continued
Attended Global Bio 2019 – a BIRAC DST lead initiative to build on the Bio-Tech wave in India. Few learnings from the event: BIRAC leadership is doing a great job promoting the Bio-Tech ecosystem in the country. This event … Continued
Semicon West, 19 was an interesting experience as always. Mind-blowing industry vision presentations by industry leaders including Synoptics, Applied Materials, Waymo ( a Google company)…. Waymo got its industry award – and I got my first preview of this … Continued
We met the Manav Rachna academic team, Dr Umesh Dutta and Dr Bindu , at the 11th August MEITY – IESA workshop on the Iesa Innovation Initiative roll out. And – on Prof Umesh’s invitation – I visited Manav Rachna … Continued
Speaking at the Flexitronics 2017, a well –attended academia-industry conclave on Flexible Electronics here in the national capital, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), Mr Ajay Kumar said the flexible electronics is a new age … Continued
I attended the FICCI 3 day workshop on GST over this weekend. Industry colleagues were all discussing the potent impact of the GST on the economy. We had a number of questions to ask the representatives from GSTN and the … Continued