India, Sept. 15 -- As India prepares itself to host the AI Impact Summit in February 2026, the country's technological standpoint takes centre stage in a pre-event organised by NITI Aayog. The gathering addressed by Union ministers Ashwani Vaishnaw and Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted India's strides in AI, semiconductors and frontier technologies, framing them as the backbone of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of Viksit Bharat.

Vaishnaw, in his address, described a constellation of technologies that India must master- including telecom, semiconductors, EVs, biotech, quantum, rare earths, and AI to achieve developed nation status.

As he remarked, at the heart of this constellation lies India's 20-year Semiconductor Mission, which Va...