PROTECTING THE BLUEPRINT
SILICON’S SILENT BATTLE ABSTRACT What happens when the invisible blueprint of our digital age the chip layout becomes the target of piracy? Who owns the hidden blueprint inside your phone or laptop? These chip layouts like city maps etched in silicon, power AI hardware, defense systems, and everyday gadgets. Yet piracy and reverse engineering copy […]
AI-DESIGNED CHIPS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
IS INDIA’S SEMICONDUCTOR LAW READY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATION? Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries across the globe, and the semiconductor sector is no exception. Technology companies increasingly employ AI systems to optimise chip architecture, improve circuit layouts, and accelerate semiconductor innovation. While these developments promise significant technological advancements, they […]
Can Domestic Chips Meet $206 Billion Demand by 2035?
India’s Semiconductor Industry in 2026 Abstract This blog examines whether the expanding semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem of India can keep up with its domestic demand that is increasing very rapidly, which is projected by NITI Aayog to grow nearly five-fold from about $44 billion to about $206 billion between FY26 and FY35. While the fabrication and […]
From SICLD to DLI
Rethinking Semiconductor IP Protection in India Abstract India has a concentration of semiconductor design talent but the intellectual property on chips is largely owned by foreign companies. This article highlights the limitations of the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000 and analyses the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme as a strategy to promote indigenous semiconductor […]
THE FORGOTTEN IP RIGHT
Why Semiconductor Layout-Designs Deserve More Attention Under Indian Law Abstract India’s efforts to build a semiconductor industry through the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM 2.0) have brought significant attention to patent and standard-essential patent issues. However, one form of intellectual property, designed over two decades ago specifically to safeguard the physical design of semiconductor chips, remains […]
Protecting Semiconductor Innovation
American dominance and Indian Challenges AbstractThis article aims to analyse the economic and historical factors that lead to the United States of America’s difficult-to-challenge dominance in the semiconductor industry, focusing on the development of its groundbreaking sui generis law that created a new intellectual property category for semiconductor topography. It analyses its provisions and compares […]
Secret Behind The Chip
From ultra-fast EV chargers to lightning-speed 5G networks, Wide Bandgap semiconductors are quietly rewriting the rules of power electronics
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From ultra-fast EV chargers to lightning-speed 5G networks, Wide Bandgap semiconductors are quietly rewriting the rules of power electronics
The Silent Revolution
From ultra-fast EV chargers to lightning-speed 5G networks, Wide Bandgap semiconductors are quietly rewriting the rules of power electronics
FROM CHIPS TO CONTROL
HOW PATENT OWNERSHIP SHAPES THE FUTURE OF AI Abstract In the artificial intelligence age, the semiconductor patent race has seen the transfer of the patent as a device to secure innovation become a device to control access to the computational infrastructure supporting the development of AI. In this article, we explore the complex legal and […]