“This is India’s time to shine…” Semiconductor Products President at Semicon India Prabu Raja

🎥 Jul 28, 2023 📺 ANINews ⏱ 3m

Semiconductor Products President at Semicon India Prabu Raja believes this is “India’s time to shine”. “With the strong vision of PM Modi to develop manufacturing, India is poised to play an important role in the global semiconductor industry. We firmly believe this is India’s time to shine. No company or country can overcome challenges in the sector alone. It’s time for collaborative partnerships in this sector. We have 25 global suppliers and 5 domestic suppliers here today. I thank them for joining this journey. This new collaborative model can provide us to be a catalyst in the sector,” sa...

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At the Semicon India conference on July 28, 2023, Prabu Raja, President of the Semiconductor Products Group at Applied Materials, stated that "this is India's time to shine" and that the country is "poised to play a central role in the global semiconductor industry." He attributed this potential to "the strong vision of Prime Minister Modi to develop manufacturing." Raja noted that "semiconductor chips are everywhere" and that "countries have realized that semiconductors are vital for economic and national security," adding that "the technology challenges of today are so large that no one can do it alone." Raja announced that Applied Materials, which has operated in India for over 20 years, plans to build a new collaborative engineering center in the country. He said the center will bring together the company's engineering talent, 25 global suppliers, five domestic suppliers, and top Indian universities to accelerate the commercialization of new semiconductor equipment technology. Raja expressed the view that this collaboration model "could serve as a catalyst for the training and development of future semiconductor talent, leading to many new jobs in engineering and manufacturing."

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For collaborative partnership and the new ways of working together, we believe that this new collaboration model could also serve as a catalyst for the training and development of future semiconductor talent. India already has strengthened semiconductor design, and with the strong vision of Prime Minister Modi to develop manufacturing, India is poised to play a central role in the global semiconductor industry. I'm privileged to be part of a team that is aggressively driving actions to convert this vision into reality. We firmly believe that this is India's time to shine.

What we do is truly magic. A state of hardship is one of the greatest engineering achievements, and the importance of semiconductors is set to grow in the future. Around the world, countries have realized that semiconductors are vital for economic and national security. How chips are made is as important as the chips themselves. Next, we've driven by artificial intelligence, IoT, and green energy transformation, records a new generation of chips. The industry roadmap calls for a big improvement in performance, power, area, cost, and most importantly, time to market.

It's truly time for collaborative partnership and the new ways of working together. We need to innovate the way we innovate. Applied Materials has been operating in India for more than 20 years. During that time, we have built an extensive set of science and engineering capabilities. We intend to build on the strong foundation with our new collaborative engineering center, where we will bring together our strong base of engineering talent, our leading global and domestic suppliers, and top Indian universities in one location, with a common goal of accelerating the commercialization of new technology.

We believe that this new collaboration model could also serve as a catalyst for the training and development of future semiconductor talent, leading to many new jobs in engineering and manufacturing as companies build up local operations here.