(The Report outlined below is based on a three member VIF delegation’s visit to IIT Madras from 1-3 September 2024, during which VIF and IIT-Madras signed an MoU for promoting greater academic cooperation. The VIF delegation also visited...
Semiconductors, or chips, the tiny yet powerful components that power everything from smartphones to supercomputers, have emerged as the central battleground of the global great power competition. These emerging critical technological domains are...
Over the last 10 years, India has witnessed phenomenal growth in the digital payments’ domain. In terms of volume, the total number of digital transactions have increased from a mere 162 crores during Financial Year (FY) 2012-13 to over 16,443...
Cyber technology is advancing at an exponential pace. Web 2.0 has migrated to web 3.0, a three-dimensional technology which has intensive deployment of AI. It has opened new types of services and capabilities and may well be the most...
(The Report outlined below is based on a talk given by Prof Manan Suri, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Delhi at the VIF on 23 November 2023. It is enriched by the valuable inputs provided by the senior members from the armed...
The list of 132 Padma awardees on this Republic Day had a unique recipient this time around. Young Liu, the CEO of Foxconn, a Taiwanese company which is the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics...
In a path-breaking defence deal, US’s General Electric (GE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on 22nd June 2023, to co-produce F414 engines for Tejas Light Combat...
The Government of India has set up a nine-member committee to revamp the Department of Defence Research and Development (DR&D) and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) which, though technically separate entities, segue...
These are exciting times. The world is in a scramble, trying to secure the ‘CHIP’ for itself. CHIP- that tiny wafer which controls all – from satellites to aircrafts, from weapons to telecommunications, from computers to...