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Open letter to Indians in America.
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Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat:
Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way.
Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned.
You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict.
Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect.
Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself.
As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal.
Respectfully
Sridhar Vembu
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Ask anyone about India’s space journey, & you will hear legends like Vikram Sarabhai, Homi J. Bhabha, Satish Dhawan, & A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. But ask about Brahm Prakash… & the story usually begins with a Google search.
If Dhawan was the statesman, & Kalam the builder, Brahm Prakash was the alchemist. Not the man who launched rockets, the man who made them possible. He did not design trajectories, he designed the very metals that could survive them.
When Brahm Prakash (MIT educated) became the 1st Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thumba in 1972, he inherited a collection of small, scattered units. Much of the early materials research happened in an old church building. While the West used expensive, pre-made industrial alloys, Brahm Prakash realized India could not import them due to sanctions. He set up the Propellant Fuel Complex (PFC) & the Materials & QC Group. He treated metallurgy as a Sadhana (disciplined practice), ensuring that every batch of indigenous steel was perfect.
Early SLV-3 used imported 15CDV6 steel. For larger vehicles like PSLV, stronger, lighter maraging steel (especially 18Ni M250 grade) was needed. Western export restrictions applied due to dual-use (missile/nuclear) nature. Brahm Prakash championed indigenous development at MIDHANI (Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd.), where he later served as Chairman (1980-84). India became 1 of the few countries with indigenous high-grade maraging steel production for rocket motor casings, a major strategic autonomy achievement still used in PSLV/GSLV.
Before space, he was a key figure under Homi Bhabha in the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). His pioneering work on zirconium-hafnium separation (using pyro-chemical/vapour phase dechlorination methods) was original & globally acclaimed in the 1950s. Zirconium (neutron-transparent) is essential for nuclear reactor cladding/fuel; hafnium (strong neutron absorber) must be removed. He played a major role in setting up the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) in Hyderabad (as Project Director) & contributed to fuel fabrication for CIRUS and later reactors.
Brahm Prakash is the reason India has Strategic Autonomy. Because he mastered the materials, India did not have to beg the world for the special metals required to build the GSLV/the Agni missiles.
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(Exclusive) Rumors: NVIDIA to Outsource to Intel in 2028; Three-Level Interpretation of TSMC’s Strategic Thinking
TSMC almost dominates advanced processes and advanced packaging, becoming a target for the United States. Chip customers simultaneously bear the heavy responsibility of "American manufacturing." Due to cost issues and capacity shortages, the model of highly concentrating production at TSMC in recent years has shifted toward a new strategy of "multi-sourcing and risk diversification."
Recently, rumors from the supply chain suggest that, in addition to Apple, NVIDIA has tentatively established that its Feynman architecture platform, debuting in 2028, will cooperate with Intel. However, the mindset of the two giants is similar: "low-volume, low-end, and non-core" is the primary strategy. They hope to meet the directives of the Trump administration without affecting their cooperative relationship with TSMC. That is to say, although they are adopting a dual-foundry model, they aim to minimize mass-production risks.
NVIDIA Feynman Architecture Generation: Seeking Partial Cooperation with Intel
In addition to announcing a $5 billion investment in Intel in September 2025, NVIDIA's latest plan is to cooperate with Intel on the Feynman architecture chip, the successor to the Rubin series.
The GPU die will still be outsourced to TSMC, while the I/O die will partially adopt Intel's 18A or the 14A process scheduled for mass production in 2028, depending on the subsequent yield and mass production status of 14A. Finally, it will be handed over to Intel's EMIB for advanced packaging. It is understood that based on the final advanced packaging proportion, Intel will account for a maximum of about 25%, while TSMC accounts for about 75%.
Supply chain sources stated that under the goals of American manufacturing and tariff pressures from the Trump administration, U.S. chip giants had already discussed cooperation with Intel. However, because 18A did not meet customer expectations, the timing of cooperation should be the 14A process mass-produced in 2028.
Compared to the high risks of introducing 14A and 18A processes, most companies' cooperation with Intel starts with EMIB advanced packaging. CEO Lip-Bu Tan recently stated that two customers are currently evaluating the specific details of the 14A process. Additionally, the timing of Intel winning customer orders can be judged from the increase in capital expenditure.
Supply chain operators analyzed that the American manufacturing goal faces cost and yield challenges, but under the reality of politics, supply chain resilience, and limited TSMC advanced packaging capacity, U.S. chip giants are bound to initiate a dual-foundry strategy.
Apple’s Entry-Level Processors Turn to Intel
Supply chain operators also stated that the foundry cooperation product Apple has been discussing with Intel for a long time should be the "entry-level M-series processor" carried by the MacBook, which is currently manufactured by TSMC.
In fact, the Apple Mac series has used Intel x86 processors since 2006, and Intel also established a dedicated "Apple Group" production line for it at its Oregon fab in 2005.
However, in June 2020, Apple officially announced the launch of the Arm-architecture chip "Apple Silicon," and the Mac series fully switched to self-developed chips two years later. At that time, Apple's primary consideration was to expand supply chain control and integrate the ecosystem to increase consumer loyalty. Another key factor was the delay of Intel's 10nm process, which threatened to affect the launch of new Mac models.
Why is Apple Restarting Cooperation with Intel After 3 Years?
Supply chain operators revealed that, consistent with the considerations of other chip companies, the main reason for Apple's change in foundry policy is still the American manufacturing goals and tariff shocks led by Trump. Secondary factors include cost, diversifying single-source manufacturing risks, and capacity shortages.
How Will TSMC Respond? Three Strategic Calculations
Currently, it is observed that Apple and NVIDIA are making gradual adjustments with the products that have the lowest foundry risk. Others in talks with Intel include Google, Microsoft, AWS, Qualcomm, Broadcom, AMD, and Tesla, as well as high-certainty long-term large orders for U.S. government contracts.
However, whether Intel can meet the needs of technology leaders who are already accustomed to the TSMC model remains a major variable.
For TSMC, it has already foreseen that many customers will turn to Intel for production. Although some orders are diverted to Intel, it is actually "more beneficial than detrimental" to TSMC.
Operators believe there are at least three levels of strategic considerations:
First, it can reduce monopoly and regulatory concerns. Second, it can release U.S. political pressure. Third, the spillovers are only "non-core" orders, which helps future bargaining and supply.
On one hand, it provides a solution for concerns that TSMC’s market share in the wafer foundry industry is too high, which might involve antitrust laws. On the other hand, appropriately releasing non-core orders can also alleviate the pressure from various requirements continuously issued by the Trump administration. Thirdly, TSMC still has the confidence to stabilize the core high-end chip foundry orders from major manufacturers.
Perhaps only after customers have tried transferring orders to other foundries will they miss the excellence of TSMC. This will be more advantageous for TSMC’s future pricing and supply.
The spokesperson systems of operators such as NVIDIA and Apple consistently do not comment on supply chain news.
I’m working from a small village in north east India this week.
Place took me 4 modes of transport and 24 hours to get to.
Everyone knows everyone here.
To a degree that you can step out and everyone will invite you to their house for tea/black coffee because they know you’re someone’s guest.
All the houses here have their own private ponds.
Fishing is a thing.
Growing your own veggies is a thing.
People are cooking together today for some festival.
Men are cutting vegetables.
Women are cooking.
People take turns to serve food while others eat.
Saw a snake casually chilling by a pond. Nobody budged.
This place is like the Australia of India.
Messi is really popular here.
I’ve met a kids named Messi.
Someone from the village paid 10 lakh for a selfie with Messi when he came to Kolkata
Rock music has its own fan base in the village children.
Arctic monkeys is really popular.
So is stranger things.
They’re looking at me work on my laptop asking me if this is how I’ll spend all my time.
The most interesting day one I’ve had at anyplace in a while.
Something extraordinary is happening in the world economy. Households are drowning in debt. Companies are overleveraged. Every traditional engine of demand has weakened.
Yet military spending is surging at a pace unmatched since the Second World War.
🚨 Researcher and author Andrew Collins has shown evidence that a mysterious 'heartbeat' emanating from the object pulsed in a 15.48-hour cycle that strangely aligned with Earth's 24-hour day.
Scans this summer previously showed that it had been blasting out in rhythmic bursts every 16.16 hours precisely, but new data from Spain's Two-meter Twin Telescope in September found this number had changed slightly as it neared Earth.
It's unclear if something within 3I/ATLAS physically changed or if scientists have just gathered more precise measurements, but Collins noted that the strange pulsations line up perfectly with timing systems used by the ancient Chinese and Indians.
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