Chip Revolution in India: For the first time from the Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC), such a telecom system has been approved whose chip is completely made in India. This is an achievement that is considered an important turning point regarding India’s ambition in terms of chip. This achievement was announced by IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav on X (former name Twitter) and described a big jump in the semiconductor story of the country. He said that TEC’s approval proves that the chip designed in India is now capable of giving power to complex telecom systems and is according to the quality benchmark of the international level.
What does TEC’s approval mean?
Getting a certificate from the Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC) is not only a regulatory stamp but more than this. It is an assurance from officials of the Department of Telecommunications that the product has lived up to strict standards of performance and security. The backbone of the country’s digital economy is telecom and it is quite important to boost. Getting TEC certificate will collide with the global chip of the chip made in India, which will open the doors of its use in both domestic and export markets.
How important is Milestone?
India has been dependent on imports from smartphones to telecom towers to car and data centers over years. TEC approval is a major step towards reducing this dependence. It is indicating progress over the government’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘self -sufficient India’ goals in the fields of electronics and semiconductor. Although India has not yet launched a full-tier advanced factory, chip design, assembly and testing capacity is constantly increasing. Currently, the focus is on creating a mature nodes of 28Nm to 65Nm range which is not an advance but remains important for telecom, automotive and industrial applications.
What is the situation of India in the chip market right now and how is the way next?
Global companies are competing to mastered the sub-5 NM chips used in AI and smartphones. However, India adopted a different route. Right now its focus is on the mature nodes. India’s effort is to remove the deficiency of supply chain which has come out during the recent shortage. According to the recent analysis of the Bastion Research, India’s strategy is to provide world-class integration services and scalable solutions in the Advanced Nodes instead of a direct clash with veteran companies like TSMC or Samsung.
According to the report, India has enough talent and engineering to meet the global demand and it is moving towards rapid expansion. Now talk further, the TEC certificate is both symbolic and practical. It certifies the quality of the country’s chip and will encourage domestic telecom operators and equipment to take chip locally.