By Ishita Ganguly

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“British semiconductor company ARM’s new Bengaluru facility will design two-nanometer chips, as announced by Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday. Ashwini Vaishnaw announces 2nm chips to be developed in India Advertisment “ARM will be designing two-nanometer chips here in this unit in Bengaluru. So congratulations to ARM and congratulations to the entire team,” Vaishnaw said after inaugurating the new facility. “After 2014, we have a very stable and forward-looking policy framework under PM Modi’s leadership, and that’s why today we have good success in the semiconductor industry…Our Prime Minister has given us a totally new energy, a new way of thinking for working towards becoming ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047,” he added. Ashwini Vaishnaw added that under India’s semiconductor mission, one of the major targets was to develop a very deep talent pipeline, and that numerous global design companies are coming to India to tap its talent pool. “ARM is one of the companies that designs chips for practically every use that we see, every mobile phone, for so many servers, for so many other products that are used. Under the semiconductor mission, one of the primary targets that we have taken is to develop a very deep talent pipeline, and this is reflected in the way so many global design companies are coming to India because the talent is here,” he said. “The semiconductor mission is today supporting 278 universities and institutions where the world’s latest EDA tools are available to students, and the students are designing chips. Twenty-eight of those chips have already been designed,” the Minister added. Most advanced chips of 2nm (used in AI servers, drones, mobile phones) to be designed/ developed by Arm in India. 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/88CLJIfrpr — Ashwini Vaishnaw (@AshwiniVaishnaw) September 16, 2025 AI Impact Summit Meanwhile, India will host an AI Impact Summit in February 2026, following the previous summit in France. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had attended the France Summit, which he jointly co-chaired. In preparation for the upcoming summit, NITI Aayog organised a gathering to showcase and share best practices of AI applications across various districts in India. “AI Impact Summit will be held in February next year. AI Summits first started in Bletchley, UK. It was then organised in Seoul, then in France, and it will now be held in India. For the preparation of AI Impact Summit, NITI Aayog held a conclave on the work being done with the help of AI on the ground level in agriculture, healthcare and education. The best practices were shared with everyone…,” Vaishnaw said. Also read: “After Ratan Tata, this company is messed up”: TCS Employee exposes workplace struggles and “mental harassment” (startuppedia.in)”