Masterclass on semiconductors with Ashwini Vaishnaw

Brut India

As India aims to lead in chip manufacturing, Brut sat down with Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, a gold medalist in electronic and communications engineering, to simplify how this will affect you.

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00:00I just need 10 seconds to set it up.

00:02Check it.

00:03Is the voice okay?

00:04Voice is okay?

00:06Roll.

00:07Mr. Union Minister, Ashwini Vaishnav, welcome to Brood.

00:11Can you simplify semiconductors for us today?

00:13Like a potato is cut into small, fine slices to make wafers, chip of this size and complexity

00:21will be having something like 70-80 kilometers of wiring.

00:25Hi, I am Ashwini Vaishnav, recording this interview for Brood.

00:29Can I get a wafer?

00:31Yeah, thank you.

00:32See, the chip industry starts with something called a wafer.

00:38Like a potato is cut into small, fine slices to make wafers, silicon, large logs made of

00:48silicon, they are cut into slices to make a wafer like this.

00:54On the wafer, chips have to be etched.

01:09So like suppose you take the case of let us say silver work or gold work, very fine

01:16work has to be done on gold or let us take the case of a very fine, very fine painting.

01:23So similarly, using very fine things like plasma and laser, those kind of things, chips

01:31are designed on the top of the wafer.

01:34Then again using a very complex process, each of the chip is taken out of the wafer.

01:41Then this needs a body because there is lot of power supply, lot of wiring has to be done.

01:47That body and the power supply, the strength has to be given by a different process.

01:54I will show you.

01:55Can I have this?

01:56Now, this is the chip.

01:59This chip will be having something which was taken out of this wafer.

02:03From the wafer, very small little tiny thing is taken out.

02:07Then it is given a complete body.

02:12Sometimes you would be surprised, a chip of this size will be having kilometers of wiring

02:17in it.

02:18If you take a 5 or 6 storey building, 5 or 6, imagine a 5 storey building or a 10 storey

02:25building, that 10 storey building will have multiple connections, staircase, lift going

02:32up and down, then electricity, plumbing.

02:37This particular chip will be having about 5 floors of chip inside it.

02:42Most of this will be produced in India.

02:44Ok, semiconductors are being made in India.

02:46Now what is in it?

02:47For me, you know, what is it going to do for me?

02:49Let's say it's a boy sitting in Kashmir playing any video game.

02:55For example, mobile phones, laptops, iPads, other tablets, train sets, automobiles, cars.

03:05Wherever chips are used, today they are imported.

03:09So now when we make them in India, the cost will be lower.

03:12The youth will get more opportunities now.

03:16Once you have the semiconductor industry, you can feed into downstream industries like

03:20electronics, like telecom equipment, like your automobile industry gets activated, like

03:27your train set manufacturing gets activated.

03:30All those industries get the benefit of having a semiconductor industry in the country.

03:36So jobs will be created in all those sectors.

03:38Indian Minister Jai Shankar had also said this is of strategic importance.

03:44How soon, you know, can we position ourselves as an alternator to China?

03:49Listen, this industry is going to grow rapidly.

03:52Today it is about 650 billion dollars globally, I'm saying.

03:58Coming six years, seven years, this industry will double, more than a trillion dollars.

04:04That's the kind of growth which is happening in this industry.

04:08And this is absolutely the right time for India to capture a large part of this industry.

04:15And the world today trusts India, our foreign policy is trusted today.

04:19The way we conduct ourselves in the world, it is trusted today.

04:22We are a large democracy.

04:24We have a very open and transparent policy structure.

04:28So the world wants to come and manufacture here.

04:31So I can clearly see that in the coming five years, India will emerge as a major semiconductor

04:37manufacturer and a very important trusted partner for large parts of the world.

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