India can tap new opportunities in chip design, mfg: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

India can tap new opportunities in areas like semiconductor design, electronic systems design and electronics manufacturing services, on top of its core capability over the next 5-7 years, Minister of State for Electronics and IT R Chandrasekhar said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Microsoft Future Ready event, the Minister said the next wave of computing performance is going to come from software optimisation, semiconductor design, electronic systems design, and innovation. "... We were software providers and now we can, in the next five to seven years, be software providers, we can be semi-conductor design providers. We can be ER&D providers, we can be electronic systems, design providers, and we can be electronics, manufacturing services providers. "There is a whole new layering of opportunities on top of what our core capability was for the last 15, 20 years," he added. Chandrasekhar noted the vision of building the USD 1 trillion digital economy in the country will be achieved in

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