Pranay Kotasthane quoted in The Wall Street Journal on India’s semiconductor push

Pranay Kotashtane, Deputy Director of the Takshashila Institution & Chair, High-Tech Geopolitics Programme, was quoted in The Wall Street Journal. He was quoted as saying,

“Earlier efforts by the government were very piecemeal, they were either targeting just a fab or sometimes just an assembly plant,” said Pranay Kotasthane, the deputy director of Takshashila Institution, a think tank in Bengaluru. “But right now, if you look at the current policy, it’s trying to support the entire ecosystem, whether it’s design, manufacture, assembly. It’s a comprehensive push.”

Mr. Kotasthane, of Takshashila Institution, said India should focus on becoming exceptionally good at just one or two segments of the semiconductor supply chain. India already designs around 20% of semiconductors, but mostly for foreign companies who own the intellectual property. “For India, the comparative advantage lies in the semiconductor design segment,” he said.

Read the full report here.