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Recently, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship inaugurated India’s first FutureLABS centre in C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram.

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar Inaugurates India’s 1st FutureLABS Centre at C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram

• This FutureLABS Centre will be named the Centre for Semiconductor Chips & Systems for Strategic Electronics.

About the Centre for Semiconductor Chips & Systems for Strategic Electronics

• Chip Manufacturing Ecosystem: It will catalyse an ecosystem for next-generation chip design, manufacturing, and research.
• Strengthen the R&D Ecosystem: It will help to  strengthen domestic research and development (R&D) and innovation in automotive, computing, communication, strategic electronics, industrial electronics, and internet-of-things. 
• Significance: 
• • Automotive sector: Focus on R&D and industry-government collaboration to develop electric vehicles, onboard sensors, and autonomous connected devices. 
  • Information and Technology Sector: Focus on R&D in high-performance, quantum, and exascale computers, indigenous microprocessors, accelerators, and blockchain, among others.

News Source: PIB