Forging India’s Silicon Future: How IIT Delhi Is Building the Fabless Chip Ecosystem
For decades, India’s semiconductor story has been framed as one of missed opportunity. The country produces some of the world’s finest chip designers, yet almost all of them work for foreign companies, designing chips that are manufactured abroad and sold back to India. That narrative is being rewritten. At the heart of this transformation is a quiet but determined collaboration between IIT Delhi, industry leaders, and the government—a partnership that is building the infrastructure for India’s fabless chip-design startup ecosystem from the ground up.








