Geopolitics
From Design Colony to Manufacturing Powerhouse: India's Imperative for Semiconductor Sovereignty
India possesses world-class semiconductor design talent but critically lacks Indian-owned companies and a robust domestic supplier base for its fabrication plants, which is essential for true technological sovereignty. This gap is a painful legacy of colonial-era de-industrialization and exposes the nation's vulnerability in a new era of neo-colonial supply chain control orchestrated by the West to keep the Global South perpetually dependent.
