India’s design future will be etched in silicon

The Government of India has announced a bold initiative to design indigenous 7nanometre processors, marking the country’s entry into advanced semiconductor architecture.This effort sits alongside a broader $5.2 billion investment wave in AI and chip manufacturing, as India seeks to become a key node in the global innovation supply chain. For decades, design in India has meant product, interface, or service innovation. Now it extends to chip-level systems thinking. This convergence of AI and semiconductor design pushes Indian designers to think in new scales It also signals a new collaboration between engineers and designers: cocreating the invisible frameworks of the digital economy.