Intro

India wants to design its own semiconductor chips. To help, the government launched a scheme with money and tools for startups that do exactly that. 

But there's a catch — and it's keeping out the very people best placed to build this industry. 

The engineers who spent decades in Silicon Valley, built the chips inside your devices, and are now coming home. A regulator that's also a competitor. And a factory that was supposed to be for Indian startups — but probably won't be.

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