‘Indian firms need to own IPs in semiconductors’
AS India takes major steps in the strategic field of semiconductors, it's important for it to develop a slew of companies that can own intellectual properties in this key area, a successful Indian American entrepreneur from the Silicon Valley has said.
Applauding India for taking steps in the semiconductor industry that has emerged as a battleground for major global powers, Kush Gulati, co-founder, president, and CEO of Silicon Valley-headquartered Omni Design, said, ‘Electronics based on semiconductors are going to be mission-critical. It is the backbone, the very backbone of the future of technology and electronics.'
‘Machine learning (ML) also is based on semiconductors. You must build the hardware to support ML. Therefore, you've got to have the company or country that controls these, an entity that is good at circuit design or chip design. Chip manufacturing is going to rule the world. It's kind of essential,' Gulati said.
‘Semiconductor manufacturing is one part, design is another part, and so is conceptualisation. India has done well with outsourced activities. A lot of designs are happening outside of India and a lot of implementations are happening within India,' he said.
Pointing out that those implementations are largely owned intellectual property wise, by many of these companies that are outside of India, Gulati said, ‘What India needs to do is develop a slew of companies or engender the development of such companies that can own the intellectual property.'
A lot of the best products that are being developed today in electronics are being developed in India, but India doesn't own it, he said, and added, ‘That's the gap. That's the transition that India needs to make.'