ISM 2.0 will shift from building fabs to building the ecosystem: MeitY Secretary Krishnan

India has proved it can do advanced chip manufacturing and must now build everything around it, S Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), said at SEMICON India 2026 in New Delhi on Thursday. "We have demonstrated that it is possible to carry out advanced manufacturing of this nature in the country," Krishnan said in his keynote. "The direction in which we are moving, and the key of this year's SEMICON conference, is to focus on the ecosystem." Five of the