THE VIDEO SHELF · india semiconductor industry
India's Semiconductor Failure
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 HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as the source on India's early fab attempts, in threads about India's semiconductor ambitions.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Asianometry
- Topic
- india semiconductor industry
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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There is a YouTube video about India's attempt at semiconductor fabs. Never knew they had built a fab before Taiwan had one. [VIDEO]
pkaye on Hacker News · 2022-01
In India Semiconductor Missionindia does not lacks it, its not price competitive as compared to china which has better supply chain and economy of scale. India and other countries are not going in fab for jobs but for self-reliance. Going for high-value semicon later is similar to the …
newusertoday on Hacker News · 2025-05
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