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India’s chip ambitions: Hype, reality and a dash of geopolitics
In point of fact, India already has a semicon foundry up and working: the SemiConductor Laboratory ( formerly Semiconductor Complex Ltd) both abbreviated to SCL, in Mohali near Chandigarh which was set up in 1976 but was defunct for many years after a mysterious fire destroyed much it.
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Assembly and testing department at the SemiConductor Lab, Mohali / SCL
Two years ago, on the sidelines of the India expo of the UK-headquartered Institute of Engineering and Technology in Bangalore, I caught up with Sir Robin Saxby, a former Chairman of IET and now a member of its Board of Governors.
I had many opportunities of meeting him professionally during his 15-year tenure at the Cambridge (UK)-based ARM, arguably one of the most spectacularly successful microprocessor companies, first as CEO for 9 years from 1991 and then as Chairman till 2006.
In his final year with ARM, I reported that he took the unprecedented step of flying the entire board of directors to Bangalore and holding the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the city’s Leela Palace Hotel. He explained to me that he thought directors of the company needed to know at first hand how much of the company’s innovations in chip design -- overwhelmingly for mobile phones-- came from its India development centre.
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