ARM expands India plans with focus on 2nm chip design and AI partnership
India’s semiconductor story added a new chapter this
week. Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced at the inauguration of the
company’s new office, that some of the world’s most advanced chips, including 2
nanometer designs powering AI servers, drones, and smartphones, will be worked
on in India. The project will be driven by ARM’s Bengaluru unit, which is
already scaling up its workforce faster than anywhere else in the world.
The move highlights how India is not only a market
for semiconductors but is also slowly becoming a place where the building
blocks of global chip innovation are being designed. For engineers and
students, it opens up new possibilities in a sector once considered far out of
reach.
ARM is also in talks with the
Indian government to enable startups to access its technology, similar to an
agreement it struck in Malaysia.Renne Haas said, “We did something creative in
Malaysia with an agreement with the government where they were the customers,
where they allow startups to engage and get access to technology. There is no
reason we could not do that with India.”
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