Nishit Gupta

Scientist E, Ministry of Electronics and IT | ex- Technical leader, STMicroelectronics

[Indian Startup News @indstartupnews]

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a post on X, “Students have designed 255 semiconductor chips as India expands chip-design capabilities across universities, boosting hands-on learning and employability.

The government has widened its semiconductor design programme to 355 universities, including institutions in Tier-II and Tier-III cities, giving students access to industry-grade electronic design automation tools.

Vaishnaw has previously compared the effort with the government’s telecom skilling push, under which 100 5G labs were established in academic institutions.

At Semicon India 2025, 20 chips designed by Indian students and manufactured at SCL Mohali were presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The initiative is part of India’s broader semiconductor strategy. Under Semicon 2.0, the government plans to develop one lakh more semiconductor engineers after meeting its earlier target of training 85,000 engineers in four years.

The programme also covers chip design, fabrication, advanced packaging, equipment, materials, research and development, and talent development.

[PIB India @PIB_India]

🔰Design Linked Incentive (#DLI) Scheme is supporting Indian Startups for designing chips for a wide range of strategic and commercial applications.

🔰#Aheesa is an Indian fabless semiconductor startup that designs chips for broadband networking and security

🔰Taped out on Republic Day and achieving first-pass silicon success on Independence Day this year, ‘#VIHAAN’ - a networking System-on-Chip (SoC) purpose-built for Fibre Broadband- will now proceed towards production tape-out, targeted for 2027

🔰DLI Scheme-backed Companies Have Cumulatively Raised Over $100 Million in VC Funding and Achieved 35 Design Tape-outs

Read the full details here: https://t.co/GCUuwLh4rN

@GoI_MeitY #IndiaAt80 #IndiaIndependenceDay

[Nishit Gupta @N_squared_Gupta]

@harrapasabhyata Please share the link of this news article

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

India’s semiconductor journey gets even more vibrant!

The Cabinet has approved Semicon 2.0 with an outlay of Rs. 1,27,500 crore, reaffirming our long-term commitment to making India a global centre for semiconductor design, manufacturing and innovation. Powered by our youth, Semicon 2.0 will strengthen every aspect of the semiconductor ecosystem.

Semicon 2.0 will attract greater investment, create high-value opportunities for our youth, strengthen supply chains and advance technological self-reliance in critical sectors.

https://t.co/b5hng7MKi5

[Nishit Gupta @N_squared_Gupta]

@pranaykotas @aytas_too_much Unfortunately - High on confidence and low in understanding on IPR ownership & revenue structure of MNC cost centres -
@pranaykotas
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@aytas_too_much

[𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐇𝐀 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐇𝐑𝐀 @SankhaSpeak]

India’s chip journey gets a major boost! @netrasemi's NETRA A2000, India’s first Edge AI SoC at 12nm, shows how the DLI scheme is powering innovation for surveillance, automotive, robotics and drones. 🇮🇳

#MakeInIndia #Semiconductor #DLI #NewIndia

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

Design Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme is showing good results.

@netrasemi has designed India’s first Edge AI System-on-Chip (SoC) ‘NETRA A2000’, at advanced 12 nm node.

At commercial scale this will power smart vision devices for surveillance, automotive, robotics, drones, etc.

[PIB India @PIB_India]

➡️Key Takeaways:

🔹Semiconductor chip design is the main value driver, contributing up to 50% of value addition, 20–50% of Bill of Materials cost (BOM), and 30–35% of global semiconductor sales via the fabless segment.

🔹MeitY’s Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme under the Semicon India Programme aims to build a self-reliant, globally competitive chip design ecosystem.

🔹24 DLI-supported chip design projects target strategic sectors including video surveillance, drone detection, energy metering, microprocessors, satellite communications, and IoT SoCs.

🔹DLI supported projects are scaling rapidly, with 16 tape-outs, 6 ASICs chips, 10 patents, 1,000+ engineers engaged, and over 3× private investment leveraged.

Read here: https://t.co/SrSqtLSiqw

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[Nishit Gupta @N_squared_Gupta]

@ANI @grok any proven examples of data leak because of chinese chips

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

India’s fledgling chip ecosystem is finally gaining traction. Govt's concerted push (ISM, DLI) has unlocked VC interest & 100+ start-ups. But scale remains stark. Indian firms raise $8–10M, while comparable Silicon Valley peers secure 4x funding($30–40M) Promising start, long road ahead. @businessline

[Nishit Gupta @N_squared_Gupta]

@IndianTechGuide @grok what's the tech infrastructure requirements for such a task?

[Banca Ifis @ricardofr6]

India's semiconductor sector is drawing significant attention from venture capital firms and corporations, with 23 companies expressing interest in the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme. Notably, major players such as Zoho are eager to be part of this burgeoning market. 🌟💡

[stefano bassi @rafijaveed]

India's semiconductor sector is gaining significant interest from venture capital firms and corporations, with 23 companies eager to join the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme. Notably, major players like Zoho are keen to enter this expanding market. 🌟💡

[microcap investors @ShridhantS]

Semiconductor industry 🔖

India's semiconductor push draws in VC and large firm keen on riding the chip wave

DLI Schem:- 23 company interested DLI scheme .

In addition VC firm,the sector has attracted the interest of large corporations such as Zoho

#Semiconductors
#Chip

[Nishit Gupta @N_squared_Gupta]

@svembu Not just free software apps- we need to endorse & adopt paid hardware indigenous devices too. Make-in-need needs support of adoption mandates from India

@narendramodi

[Nishit Gupta @N_squared_Gupta]

@svembu The search engine in Zoho Mail, along with its integration with GovDrive, has several issues resulting in lost or non-searchable official emails. These problems have remained unresolved for over a year, despite repeated follow-ups with support. Kindly address this matter.

[Nishit Gupta @N_squared_Gupta]

@HyperTechInvest @grok what's the impact of this policy update on the stock price of all these mentioned companies

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

From Gujarat to Meghalaya and Jammu to Tamil Nadu…
Students from across Bharat are designing chips, now being taped-out at SCL Mohali. 🇮🇳

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

Bharat steps up efforts to be a product nation.

Chipsets with our own IP is an important objective in this journey.

Our semiconductor mission has a component - Design Linked Incentives - DLI - to encourage startups who innovate and design chips.

Supported by DLI Scheme and IIT-M expertise, Mindgrove Technologies has designed secure IoT chips. These are designed for CCTV cameras, industry 4.0 applications, and other IoT devices.

This high-performance microcontroller System-on-Chip will also enable trusted indigenous solutions for strategic sectors.

[PMO India @PMOIndia]

India’s chip market booming, set to hit $100-110 Bn by 2030
https://t.co/FuuB7jJv7I

via NaMo App