Chip designing good starting point for India: IESA chief

New Delhi: With more than 20% of the world’s semiconductor designers working out of India, chip designing is a good starting point for the ecosystem the government is planning to set up in India, apart from assembly, testing, marking and packaging (ATMP), a top official of an industry body said.

Speaking to ET, Vivek Tyagi, chairperson of India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) said that his endeavour is to push for semiconductor design. “More and more that we design, more intellectual properties we have, more patents we have, and more high value jobs we can create, rather than just assembly worker jobs.”