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The supply chains tag covers policy and investment efforts aimed at strengthening domestic access to critical technology inputs. Recent coverage examines Vietnam’s plans to develop local capabilities in rare earth processing, semiconductor materials, and battery materials, supported by research centers and a national materials database. It also follows India’s Semicon 2.0 program, a ₹1,27,500 crore initiative covering chip design, manufacturing equipment, materials, chemicals, gases, fabrication plants, advanced packaging, research, and workforce development. Together, these stories focus on the upstream resources, industrial infrastructure, and skilled workforce needed to support semiconductor manufacturing and reduce dependence on vulnerable international supply networks.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Vietnam Targets Rare Earth and Chip Materials by 2030

    Vietnam’s Politburo has ordered the country to develop domestic capability in deep processing of rare earths, semiconductor materials and battery materials by 2030, shifting its chip-sector policy upstream from design, packaging and manufacturing ambitions toward the inputs that determine...
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    India Semicon 2.0 Approves ₹1,27,500 Crore Chip Supply Chain Plan

    India’s Union Cabinet has approved Semicon 2.0, a ₹1,27,500 crore second phase of the India Semiconductor Mission intended to broaden the country’s chip ambitions from subsidising individual plants to building a domestic supply chain around them. The approval, announced July 15, extends the...