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It was granted approval by the cabinet only in 2014 -
i didn't know that.
(i) M/s Jaiprakash Associates Limited (with IBM, USA and Tower Semiconductor Limited, Israel as partners)
a) Project Cost: Rs 34,399 crore
b) Technology: 90/65/45/28 nm
c) Capacity: 40,000 WSPM
d) Location: Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh
(ii) M/s HSMC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. (with ST Microelectronics and Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. as partners)
a) Project Cost: Rs 29,013 crore
b) Technology: 90/65/45/28/22 nm
c) Capacity: 40,000 WSPM
d) Location: Prantij, Gujarat
so what exactly are they really going to manufacture?? and do they have the 6 billion dollars each??
To go full indigenous a huge investment is required which isn't possible for the GoI to commit as of now
The Centre has also set up a Rs 10,000-crore fund to give subsidies of 20-25% of capital expenditure costs to companies setting up manufacturing facilities in the country.
it does not require a billion dollars and five government departments to have a indigenous microprocessor ( if that is what they mean by "semiconductor" ).
all it needs is if someone has the idea of a radically new design, money sources ( private or government ) should immediately fund that person or group, and the group must be willing to innovate, going against established design rules that are taught in colleges and forwarded in the "industry".
except for the indian film industry, indian financing system is the stupidest in the world...
(a). if someone has to design something big, that person should not be doing job because the job would take away ten or eleven hours of a day and leave the person in no state to design anything... ideas may come any time of the day and the person must be free to pursue them, and something like microprocessor will take years in design because the project will keep getting enhanced and simplified... and in all this time, that person or group must have money for a comfortable life... what if those people are from middle-class background?? a minimal comfortable life in india will need at least 15,000 rupees to live in the style befitting someone working on such a important thing... but india is a country of jobniks where people must do useless jobs just to survive and if someone does job we come back to the same problem of the person not being able to do the project ( any actually useful project ).
(b). the capitalist banking system in india wants only money going into bank profits and nothing for benefit of larger society... so if you go to a bank for a typical loan, they will ask you the previous six monthly salary receipts and they may then give you a capitalism-calculated loan for which you must pay monthly installments back to them and these too are added with interest calculation... but if a person or group wishes to start a business based on a project, they must pursue the project giving full time... so where from will they have money to pay back the bank every month... so again, it is either job or project.
(c). private venture capitalists ( computer field ) in india are useless because they fund the most frivolous and materialistic of projects... shopping websites, app writing companies, smaller versions of coolie companies like infosys etc... these venture capitalists in india, because of india's non-risk-taking and materialist culture, expect money back within months... which is why neither a operating system design company has been started here nor a spaceship design company ( like spacex ).
(d). you just have to look at the long-winded funding procedures of the various technological ministries in india... so unless your venture is self-funded, there is absolutely no chance.
(e). organizations like cdac and drdro will never design a os or microprocessor because such things need big-picture thinking and going-against-the-grain, and as in known, the "scientists" in these organizations come through the ridiculous indian system which focuses on exams and the exams are meant to produce race horses which compete for jobs and the consequent salaries... and because each person tries to be safe, he never talks of new things which entails "risk"... therefore no innovation... look how the 2010 drdo announcement of a operating system has gone nowhere in four years, and they want five more years to come up with something.
the best operating system in the world is qnx, originally designed by two people in canada in 1981, i think... there is reason why india could not devise a basic operating system in these 30+ years, let alone a os better than qnx.
The greatest project of C-DAC has been the "PARAM-series Supercomputers" - As of 2008, 52 PARAMs have been deployed. Of these, 8 are located in Russia, Singapore, Germany and Canada. PARAMs have also been sold to Tanzania, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Ghana, Myanmar, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | India unveils huge supercomputer
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"supercomputer" is really a american establishment concept, deriving from their "mainframe" concept, which in turn derives from the capitalist nature of the system there... banks, insurance, inventories, stocks etc.
you have seen my opposition to this concept.
one can easily go on cancelling usage of supercomputer in fields like "weather prediction", nuclear weapons design, biology applications, security information analysis, "big data" etc... one can cancel by (a). cancelling the entire field, (b). using cluster of off-the-shelf machines, (c). decentralized data collection ( example, public security ).
"supercomputer" really has become a means of waging nationalistic chest-thumping in which the only three really interested participants are india, usa and china... "who has the most petaflops" is the goal of these wars... neither of these societies has actually improved because of having increased "supercomputer" over the years.
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