Eight chipsets designed by IIT students sent to fabs: IT Minister Vaishnaw

Students at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have designed 20 chipsets and eight of them have already been “taped out” and sent to global foundries and the Semi-Conductor Laboratory in Mohali for fabrication, electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.

Speaking at the 14th convocation ceremony of IIT-Hyderabad, Vaishnaw also reiterated that the first commercial-scale, made in India semiconductor chip will be built this year.

IIT students designed the chipsets using tools provided under the government’s India Semiconductor…