India, Sept. 18 -- There was a panel discussion on: Scaling India's fabless ecosystem: From innovation to global leadership, at Semicon India 2026.

The speakers were: Anil Kalra, Executive Director, L&T, Deepak Agarwal, CVP & India Site Head, AMD, Jeyenth Vijayaraghavan, ASIC IP Head, Ericsson, Rama Shukla, Senior VP, Sandisk, and Manish Bali, Senior Director, Head, Semiconductor, UST. Venkata Simhadri, CEO and Chairman, ASIP, was the moderator.

Deepak Agarwal said one in five design engineers work in India. AMD has largest R&D center here, in Bangalore. Technologies are being weaponized. We need to become self-reliant on the chip front. Access to IPs is very important, EDA tools, AI tokens, compute -- all play a very big role. With ISM...