🇮🇳 India's Long-Terms Ai Chip Bet
🔹 In 2025, U.S. curbs on Nvidia pushed India to build its own AI chip.
🔹 C-DAC — born after the 1985 Cray ban, creator of PARAM — now has a $200M mission for a 2 nm RISC‑V inference accelerator.
🔹 A ~30‑engineer Bengaluru team is trial‑manufacturing designs at TSMC & Samsung, with HCL validating silicon.
🔹 Target: production‑ready by 2029, deployed in govt, research & public systems by 2030.
⚙️ It won’t beat Nvidia — it’s a sovereign fallback for defence, aerospace & public AI if restrictions hit again.
🦁 Dhruv64 holds at 28 nm; the 2 nm accelerator is the moonshot.
📌 Semicon 2.0 puts design IP at the core.
✅ First wafers are already in the foundry.
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