Chips, Ties, and Sovereignty: India–Taiwan Semiconductor Collaboration in the Indo-Pacific

2025-09-01 - 2025-09-01

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Exploring preparedness, partnerships, and the geopolitics of a shared semiconductor future

📌Date and Time: September 1, 2025, 14:00–16:30 Taipei Time (GMT+8); 11:30–14:00 India Standard Time (GMT+5:30)

📌Format: Online

📌Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83135486722?pwd=rPumBKRJD5hin5i1dnay09bylKN0Dm.1

📌Forum Language: English

 

📌Synopsis
Amid rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, India–Taiwan cooperation in the semiconductor sector is emerging as both a technological opportunity and a geopolitical strategy. Taiwan’s global leadership in chip manufacturing and India’s growing semiconductor ambitions present a partnership with the potential to transform India into a key player in the global supply chain.

This forum examines India’s semiconductor preparedness and how chip industry exchanges are redefining India–Taiwan ties. Speakers will address industry prospects, constraints, and missed opportunities, as well as the roles of policy, academia, and technology in shaping a more resilient and sovereign semiconductor future.

 

📌Moderator

💭Rosinka Chaudhuri
Director and Professor in Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India

💭Joyce C.H. Liu
Professor Emeritus, Specially Appointed Professor, International Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, NYCU, Taiwan

 

📌Topics and Speakers:

1. Topic: From Sand to Silicon to Systems: Academia’s Role in India's Semiconductor Journey.

💭Prof. Sanket Goel

Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India

2. Topic: India's Semiconductor Industry: Problems and Prospects.

💭Prof. Pranab Kumar Das

Professor of Economics, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India

💭Prof. Vivekananda Mukherjee

Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India

3. Topic: How Chipmakers Redefine the Prospects and Problems in India-Taiwan Bilateral Ties?

💭Dr. Poonam Sharma

Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

4. Topic: Decoding India–Taiwan Semiconductor Cooperation: Constraints, Calculations, and Missed Opportunities

💭Dr.Megha Srivastava

MoFA Taiwan Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Institute of National Defense and Security Research, Taipei, Taiwan.

 

 

📌Organizer

International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University

• Subproject II: The Chip Era and Digital Governance (Principal Investigator: Joyce C.H. Liu)
• ICSSR-NSTC Project (2025-2027): China’s Digital Silk Road and Chip-Based Geopolitics: A Critical Analytical Study from the Indo-Taiwan Perspective

📌Partner Institutions

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India.

BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.

📌Funding Source

Higher Education Sprout Project, Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan