India will emerge into leading position in semiconductor market

Everybody in the semiconductor industry talking that, India has talent pool. India is growing mainly due to its talent. The key speakers at ongoing (Jan 5-8 2009) VLSI conference at Delhi, also concluding that, India has the key enablers to play leading role in semiconductor market.
People have selected and studied electronics engineering, so they have the task to excel in this field, Engineers who are not able grasp the silicon quite well have moved over to application software areas. But the engineers who are bitten by the power of semiconductor have put all the effort to grow their career in VLSI. Few are branched out to embedded, which is little easier to learn and provide more job opportunities but the focused rest are into the tough VLSI zone.

These engineers who have preferred VLSI have grown in their career by taking jobs offered by Multi National Companies (MNCs) like Freescale, Intel, NXP ….. In fact there are no more than couple of pure Indian VLSI companies. However there are quite a lot of less risk taking outsourcing companies in India who sell VLSI design services more than a product.

Indian VLSI engineers have developed complete products out of their Indian Labs of MNC companies they are working for. The same engineers can develop completely made in India chips.

What has to be done by the Indian industry to achieve this goal are...