Under Chips to Startups (C2S), India made significant progress towards its target of training 85,000 semiconductor engineers;

• C2S is an umbrella capacity-building programme under MeitY's India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) to build a VLSI/Embedded System Design talent pipeline in academic institutions.
• Target: train 85,000 industry-ready engineers (B.Tech/M.Tech/PhD) over 10 years; develop 175 ASICs, 20 SoCs and an IP-core repository in 5 years.
• Anchors India's bid to capture a slice of the global semiconductor industry projected to grow from ~USD 800–900 bn to USD 2 trillion, needing ~2 million skilled professionals.