According to Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, the government is expected to launch the Bharat Semiconductor Research Centre soon. It will be a global standard academia-government-private sector-start-up partnered institution.
Speaking at the All-India Research Scholars’ Summit (AIRSS) 2024, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, the minister noted that the research facility, which will be in collaboration with industry experts and academia, will be created in public-private partnership (PPP) mode.
The minister added that the centre will be spun off into an independent semiconductor research organisation that will compete and cooperate with the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), MIT Microelectronics, USA, and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, and further establish itself in the coming years as one of the principle poles of semiconductor research.
Furthermore, the minister added that the research centre will have a vibrant ecosystem of top-notch universities and colleges of India working and collaborating on research in a diverse set of areas from materials to physics to science to transistors to devices to packaging to system innovation, among other areas.
