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India's Semiconductor Failure
Asianometry
Asianometry explains why India, a chip design powerhouse, cannot fabricate chips, tracing the 1980s government attempt to build a national semiconductor champion and how it collapsed. It includes the sabotage at the SCL fab.
HN uses it as the source on India's early fab attempts, in threads about India's semiconductor ambitions.
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