India won't become a semiconductor superpower anytime soon, says think tank

If we're being honest, no country will.

> ITIF’s report found that, quite frankly, this stuff is hard. > > "Fabricating semiconductors is perhaps the most complex manufacturing activity humanity undertakes," wrote the study authors.

These processes are trade secrets requiring years of expensive iterative R&D. You can't skip over years of internal knowledge building by just throwing money at it. Just because the ruling/capital class wants all this chip fabrication infrastructure doesn't mean civilization is obligated or even capable of making it happen.