No Fab for You: Why TSMC rejected India, Singapore, and Qatar Despite Incentives
Qatar offered billions. India rolled out red carpets. Singapore promised precision. But TSMC said: “No Fab for You.”
Kumar Priyadarshi
Kumar Joined IISER Pune after qualifying IIT-JEE in 2012. In his 5th year, he travelled to Singapore for his master’s thesis which yielded a Research Paper in ACS Nano. Kumar Joined Global Foundries as a process Engineer in Singapore working at 40 nm Process node. Working as a scientist at IIT Bombay as Senior Scientist, Kumar Led the team which built India’s 1st Memory Chip with Semiconductor Lab (SCL).
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