Davos 2025: Expect first made-in-India chip this year, says Ashwini Vaishnav

Davos 2025: Expect first made-in-India chip this year, says Ashwini Vaishnav


Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnav, speaking to NDTV on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, said the first India-made semiconductor chip is expected to be introduced in 2025.

“We should introduce our first made-in-India chip this year itself,” Vaishnav said, adding that significant progress has been made on this front since the launch of the Semiconductor Mission in 2022.

The minister leading the India AI mission stressed that the country’s plans to benefit from this emerging technology are on track. The government is currently working on the next phase of its AI mission, which revolves around two goals: designing an indigenous AI model and an indigenous AI chip.

He said the India AI Mission is also expected to achieve three other key objectives by 2025, including the creation of a general compute facility of 10,000 GPUs. “The second is to have a very strong talent pipeline. The third is to basically focus on getting applications.”

Vaishnav also underlined that the government aims to set up the “right regulatory framework” for artificial intelligence, where innovation and regulation are balanced.

“We have a senior level committee headed by the principal scientific advisor who will advise us as to what the policy framework should be. So that recommendation has already come. We are in discussion with all the stakeholders,” he said.