India’s ambition to become a global technology powerhouse is no longer a distant dream, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday, as he held up a palm-sized semiconductor wafer — a homegrown chip model he believes could disrupt the world’s leading manufacturers.

Addressing a summit here, Vaishnaw said India’s digital revolution is being driven by advances in areas such as digital credit, lightning-fast mobile data and large language models. He called it the “next wave of India’s growth story”, powered by indigenous innovation.

The minister stressed that protecting the country’s digital assets must go hand in hand with its technological rise. “Data is the new oil, and data centres are the new refineries. We must ensure that data remains within India’s borders and that our own t

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