Like Chandrayaan, India’s semiconductor push aims for the moon, but success is not guaranteed

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From a technology policy lens, the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission in 2023 – which saw India become the fourth country to land a rover on the moon and the first to do so near the Lunar south pole – brings up a pertinent question: if largely government-run efforts could make India a bonafide space power, can some of those learnings help India become a semiconductor power? Geopolitical competition between the United States and China, as well as a perceived overreliance on a seemingly vulnerable Taiwan for the vast majority of advanced chips, has made the semiconductor manufacturing sector the...