India, July 27 -- The clearest view is always from below! This is something that I have learned, and applied wherever possible, very early in life. Here's how!

Being based in India now has taken me quite some distance away from the electronic components ecosystem that is spread so lavishly across Asia -- specifically, Taiwan, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, and Malaysia, etc. That components ecosystem is something I really miss very badly, and hope to reunite with again, at some stage.

I was recently part of a PC Quest study on semiconductors in India. One of the questions posed was on: Which semiconductor components are most likely to be localized first?

My reply: Electronic components are a very different story. Active c...