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India's Semiconductor Failure

Asianometry · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Semiconductors & chip manufacturingTech industry & business models

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as the source on India's early fab attempts, in threads about India's semiconductor ambitions.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Never knew they had built a fab before Taiwan had one.”

    Covers India's early fab attempt, built before Taiwan had one

    pkaye, 2022-01 · Recommendation · in “India Semiconductor Mission”

  2. “India had sound policies it was quite ahead of time when it created SCL, check this video for more”

    Shows India had sound early semiconductor policy but weak execution

    newusertoday, 2025-05 · Recommendation · in “Zoho halts $700M semiconductor plan”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: semiconductors, india, fabs, scl, industrial policy

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