India Semiconductor Mission
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>The Scheme for setting up of Display Fabs in India shall extend fiscal support of up to 50% of project cost on pari-passu basis to the approved applicants ...
>The Scheme for setting up of Compound Semiconductors / Silicon Photonics / Sensors (including MEMS) Fabs and Semiconductor ATMP / OSA...
These were taken from the boxes at the bottom. Does this read as repetitive in Indian English as in American English? I had never seen the phrase "pari-passu" before either. It seems like this project is just starting, and is going to be looking into how it could grow a domestic manufacturing chain for semiconductors.
They keep using that word, I don't think it means what they think it means. /s Though maybe they just plan to write all their support code in LISP.
https://www.legalserviceindia.com/article/l276-PromoterPromo....
There are many such idiosyncrasies that make more sense if you accept that it’s a different dialect (rather than assuming they’re using American/UK English incorrectly).
Definition of "scheme" in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary:
"(British English) a plan or system for doing or organizing something"
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
What Indira did? Shooed them away, and told to blacklist them for visas.
"Thinking machines," they thought, would completely annihilate the bureaucratic work, and babu jobs for their progeny.
Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey?
You won't talk about the thousand ways Indians were kept from immigrating to the US or acquiring computers and mainframes using sanctions.
No... Indira indeed understood semiconductors, and "what those thinking machine thing is" way batter than most of her contemporaries. She was very educated.
In fact, she was promoting computer education heavily, yet her vision for the computer was complete opposite of business minded Americans.
She seen computers to be powerful, and heavily restricted machines in the future, gated behind the elite "oracular class" to prevent proletarians from computing something wrong (like finding out cong fudging economics figures.)
For her vision of computers, mass manufacturing was not needed, and, worse, it was dangerous. She didn't mind computers costing millions of dollars, or being the size of a mountain, and only available few pieces per country as long as the owner would be her/the government.
She later conceeded on this towards the end of her reign once she seen the industry choosing the Fairchild's path irreversably, but the ship has long since sailed.
I as many other Indians suspect today was just a continuation of the colonial rule.
So Indira like her father was a continuation of the colonial rule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export-oriented_industrializat...
Manufacturing comes with its own problems, the chief one being all sorts of pollution. I think it’s fine that the country jumped directly into services.
Foxconn tried to setup in India in 2004, and ran away in terror 3 years later.
Wistron got union wrecked once they delayed the salary for "just" one month.
Companies in India basically have budgets for union strikes.
P.S. I got blocked again, so posting in an edit
1 https://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/foxconn-s...
2 https://www.techradar.com/news/riot-at-wistrons-iphone-plant...
3 https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/case-study/story/tvs-g... and https://m.economictimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/la...
Well, some of the software stuff on it is from India. Enjoy!
It is just wrong to say india just provide support. That was the case like 20 years back
That’s only interesting because it’s the first pair I’ve seen sold here.
I’ve also noticed Indian metal working stuff turning up on ebay and Amazon.
I generally think of India for service but it’s really interesting to see if it can become a manufacturing hub too.
[1] India's Semiconductor Failure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isBYV6QWDIo)
I get that. But these projects cannot run on political will alone. Ministers change. And parties can lose in elections. The only constant is the bureaucracy. And I have very little trust in their competence.
As a poor country we can not afford to deliver first world "Human rights" especially for hardened criminals.
1. Every major design corp has India campus, so India definitely has the talent for design
2. Coming to Fabs -- India lags big time. Why?
I am going to give a half-informed answers -- please fact check and correct me.
a. Dust -- at least the lower peninsula is Dusty (this has to do with Monsoons & Western ghats ..)
b. Water -- It is very hard to find the kind of intensive water facilities that do not go against agriculture sector
c. Silicon -- comes from Quartz and Indian Quartz comes from Andhra and Telangana is not of great quality
I can see India having fabs for domestic consumption and lower end.. not for export or bleeding edge.
note: Please down-vote if you think that is right and also provide feedback where I am wrong -- that would actually help here.
Huh? Your cleanroom standard for semiconductor manufacturing is more stringent than air quality in Switzerland. I think general air quality matter less when you can use sophisticated cleanroom equipments.
I know the fact Silicon does not come from Sand but mostly from Quartz. That is not speculation.
I do not know the effects of dust in air with respect to how that will have effects on Fab.
Fabs are water intensive -- that I know and growing up Indian states always used to have water tensions
As disclaimed -- I do not know it fully but I am not completely clueless as you suggest.
See this presentation "Manufacturing of Silicon Materials for Microelectronics and Solar PV" for an overview of how industry turns quartzite and coal (dirty) into ultra-pure silicon:
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1497235
If I were to guess, I would say that India's largest obstacle to domestic silicon production and refining is the price of electricity. The processes need a lot of electricity so they tend to be located in areas where it is available at low cost.
As per my observations, even most of the graduates don't continue in the field, they either go to foreign countries for graduate studies, and almost never come back - or switch careers to IT/Consulting/Finance through an MBA within a decade of graduation.
You got desserts, water scarcity, earthquakes, security risks - pick two.
I know the answer. Just unbelievable self-promotion at public tax payer expense.
Is there a similar case elsewhere in any other democracy that's comparable.
By the way , I loved the press conference (https://youtu.be/NaMUQQtlrNA?t=296) of the minister (seems well informed atleast from the way he spoke - may be good secretaries , still)
The sheer scale and ubiquity is definitely very new. It's even more pronounced now than compared to his first term.
> seems well informed atleast from the way he spoke
Well, he did study electronics and communication engineering.
There have been efforts to bring forth a coalition of smaller regional parties to amalgamate into a third national contender, but these efforts have not been very successful.
I imagine a number of the % of public tax payers who are ardent Hinduists are probably quite happy to see Modi's mug on things. He's their guy, after all.
A picture goes very far than any words.
A lot of new schemes are introduced by this govt, and there is a tendency in Indian politics to show or lap up to those currently in power.
So its not like this person is demanding a photo be put, but lackeys will do it anyway.
Also, the govt structure is different than in the US. The administrative department is under the control of politicians. So you have this effect. A byproduct of colonial government. In the US, the birth of US was marked by rejection of British.
In India, it was not the rejection of British, but, a good faith handshake goodbye that marked the birth of it.
Believe me. The moment the govt changes, the pics will change, or be removed.
Modi mastered it -- more than others. I went to India recently, every Gas Station has a big ass banner of Modi about some LPG scheme. I mean, if every web site bothers you think about this on a road trip.
You can do cult as long as you competently deliver but when things don't go your way, the posters will remind people of him and his failure -- it is a double edged sword. A blunt instrument of propping image.
This is probably the most representative i can find online
So much so that DMK is called the sticker party, at least among the well informed.
It's tiring to be subject to the constant narcissism. The human toll of the incompetence of this government is incalculable. They've set us back decades, if not forever, because I have no clue how our dumb bureaucracy and spineless civil society are going to deal with destruction that climate change is likely to visit on the subcontinent without completely fragmenting.