India, March 7 -- The Government of India's initiative to prioritise talent development through training, upskilling and workforce development under the Chips to Startups (C2S) initiative of the India Semiconductor Mission has made significant progress in the past four years, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said.

The minister stated that the country is steadily moving towards its 10-year target of training 85,000 engineers in semiconductor design.

Vaishnaw said world-class Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools supported by companies such as Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, Siemens, Renesas Electronics, Ansys and AMD have been made available in 315 academic institutions across the country.

With access to these advanced tools, studen...