Sharma: Advanced semiconductor fabs require national state support, not just companies
Rahul Sharma · Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath · Apr 26, 2025 · at 2:18:43
Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma discusses why commercial companies alone cannot build cutting-edge semiconductor fabs without government backing.
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“And again, it's a country play. A company can't build something like this. Country, you know, has to come into it.”
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