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During Salvador Allende’s brief term in power, a revolutionary project sought to use technology, specifically information from factories for real-time planning and interventions in the economy. What does this tell us about knowledge and the struggle over the infrastructure that produces it?
Semiconductor chips, or microchips, as they are commonly known, are the building blocks of electronics systems today.
Chips from SCL, which is the only unit in the country to manufacture chips, have gone into previous space missions, however, the nodes are very old and need to be updated with the latest in modern technology.
The Semiconductor Lab (SCL) at Mohali, the only government-owned semiconductor fabrication unit, will be one of the beneficiaries of the Central Government’s $10 billion semiconductor incentive package.
The proposed $20-billion Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor fabrication facility at Ahmedabad hogged the limelight, but not many would be aware that India’s dream of becoming global semiconductor leader was conceived way back in 1976 and it has a Punjab connection.