Are Semiconductor fabs white elephants? Why does a country need to invest in them? What are the payoffs? Is this essential for India? All this and more in this must-watch conversation with Prof Rajeev Srinivasan an IIM-B Professor.
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The problem of India is far too many half educated pseudo experts. People who know very little or NOTHING about a topic that they are always ready to bloviate upon. All they achieve is creating a lot of noise ( the 10 blind men trying to describe an elephant ) but when it comes to hardcore expertise they run to even a tiny country like Taiwan for hardcore expertise.
The questions are more thought-provoking than the answers.
1. Building an electronics ecosystem to consume ‘indigenous’ chips is a bigger challenge.
2. Tremendous (multi-billion-dollar) opportunities awaiting us in the design automation software space. Within our reach, if we try.
3. Need concrete steps to address skills gap and exodus of talent. Now way around it.
4. Testing and packaging may not boost our egos, but don’t ignore the bottom of the pyramid.