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What's brewing
From silicon to systems.
Eight subjects that keep coming back to this table. Some are deeply technical. Some are about people. All of them decide whether India ends up with a semiconductor industry or a set of announcements.
Topic 01
FAB & Manufacturing
Understanding fabs, processes and the journey from a grain of sand to a finished semiconductor. What actually happens inside the building, and why it costs what it costs.
- What a cleanroom is really protecting against, and from whom
- Front end and back end: why one wafer needs two different buildings
- How a fab startup unfolds, from an empty ballroom to first wafer out
- Yield: the number that decides whether a fab makes money
Topic 02
Semiconductor Equipment
The machines, the engineering and the unglamorous choreography that makes semiconductor manufacturing possible. This is the half of the industry nobody puts on a poster.
- Deposition, etch, lithography, implant, CMP and metrology, in plain words
- What happens between the crate arriving and the tool making product
- Preventive maintenance, uptime and the economics of a tool standing idle
- Why a local service bench matters more than a warranty certificate
Chips, technology, AI and the future
Topic 03
Chips & Technology
Processors, memory, sensors, power semiconductors, AI accelerators and the emerging technologies underneath them. What each one is for, and what makes it hard to build.
- Logic, memory and analogue: three industries wearing one name
- Power and compound semiconductors, and why India keeps mentioning them
- Advanced packaging: when stacking beats shrinking
- What a node number does and does not tell you
Topic 04
AI & the Future
Two directions at once. AI needs semiconductors to exist, and semiconductor factories are quietly becoming some of the most data-rich places on earth.
- Fault detection, statistical process control and what came before the buzzwords
- Predictive maintenance: the tool telling you it is about to fail
- Virtual metrology, yield analytics and AI vision inspection
- Digital twins for fab layout, hookup planning and energy
Topic 05
People & Talent
Engineers, technicians, researchers, educators and the next generation. A fab is a building full of people, and the building is the easy part.
- Why fabs need technicians and technologists as much as PhDs
- On-the-job training, shift discipline and the culture of a floor
- Polytechnics and ITIs as a semiconductor pipeline, not a fallback
- Opening advanced manufacturing to specially-abled talent
Startups, innovation, policy and ecosystem
Topic 06
Startups & Innovation
Entrepreneurs building semiconductor technologies and businesses, often with a fraction of the capital their competitors take for granted.
- Where a small Indian company can genuinely compete
- Services, spares, subsystems and tooling as real semiconductor businesses
- Finding a first customer when your buyer is a fab
- What investors get wrong about hardware timelines
Topic 07
Policy & Ecosystem
India's semiconductor ambitions, the schemes behind them and the ecosystem being assembled around them, discussed by people who have to deliver against them.
- Detailed Project Reports: where intent becomes a facility
- State missions, industry bodies and academia on one calendar
- Localisation of spares, gases, chemicals and services
- Supply-chain resilience, beyond the slide
Topic 08
India's Semiconductor Journey
Documenting the people, investments, capabilities and opportunities shaping India's semiconductor future, while it is still being written. Not the press release version.
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