Why India Could Not Build a Semiconductor Fab
Asianometry · Explainer · YouTube title: India's Semiconductor Failure
Why it's here
HN uses it as the source on India's early fab attempts, in threads about India's semiconductor ambitions.
What it covers
Asianometry explains why India, a chip design powerhouse, cannot fabricate chips, tracing the 1980s government attempt to build a national semiconductor champion and how it collapsed. It includes the sabotage at the SCL fab.