Startups, entrepreneurs from Kerala must join India’s semiconductor journey: Union Minister Chandrasekhar

Thiruvananthapuram: Startups, entrepreneurs, and youth from Kerala must get the opportunity to be at the starting line of India’s transformation in semiconductors, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said here on Wednesday.

Announcing that the upcoming Bharat Semiconductor Research Centre (BSRC) will have a regional centre at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) here, the minister also facilitated an MoU between tech major IBM and C-DAC, with an aim to accelerate India’s processor design and manufacturing capabilities for high-performance computing.