siliconindia | | September 20178IN MY OPINIONT he semiconductor content used in India is driven by the increased adoption of mobile electronics/mobile phones, and the increasing profusion of things like household appliances, audio-visu-al equipment or automobile. As the country be-comes more prosperous, and as more people are able to afford these kinds of devices, the consumption of semiconductor content is also increasing. In recent times, an increasing portion of our day-to-day life is being digitised, especially communication, smart homes, automobiles, 2-wheelers & transportation mecha-nisms. As a result, vast amount of data is generated in India through IT & design services industry, and the storage of all that generated information is also being digitised. So the big question that most of us in India have is `Is that $52 billion of semiconductor content going to be imported, or is some portion of that going to be manufactured within the country?'In an exclusive interview with siliconindia, Krishnan Shrinivasan, Managing Director of Lam Research, shares his insights about the current semiconductor industry in India, the emerging trends, and its impact on technology innovation.How important is the role of Semiconductor industry in realising the Digital India initiative?At the root of everything that is digital, there is a digital circuit that is implemented on a semiconductor device. The vast amount of digital data that is generated, both raw and processed, needs to be analysed, processed and stored. Increasingly storage devices are also moving away from spinning media such as hard disk drives to solid state media such as Flash. So in all three areas, semiconductor content will be vital; you don't have a digital world without semi-conductors. Not many Indian startups are entering the semiconductor segment. What should the Government do to encourage startups to foray into the semiconductor space?In some areas of the semiconductor industry, we are actu-ally very advanced and global leaders. For example, in the design of semiconductors, or the VLSI process, all major players including Intel do their VLSI design in India. There is a great amount of sophistication involved at the design area. Where we are deficient is in manufacturing. The gov-ernment needs to figure out a way to move forward in the manufacturing. The manufacturing ecosystem for semicon-ductors is very complex, and we actually need to build an ecosystem around it. How is semiconductor impacting the development of IoT, SMAC, Big Data & AI Technologies?All of these technologies require semiconductor content. Storage tends to be solid state now. There are two things that are required for wide-spread adoption of these tech-REDUCED COST & INCREASED CAPACITY CAPABILITY TO DRIVE WIDESPREAD SEMICONDUCTOR ADOPTIONBy Krishnan Shrinivasan, Managing Director, Lam ResearchHeadquartered in California, Lam Research (NASDAQ:LRCX) is one of the world's leading manufacturer, supplier and designer of semiconductor components which are mainly used in fabricating integrated circuits to build smaller, faster, and more power-efficient devices.
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