At a $250 Billion Summit, One Indian Entrepreneur Noticed What Was Missing

NEW DELHI, February 18, 2026. Fewer than ten companies on Earth are building agentic AI for semiconductor design. In India, a country that just committed Rs 40,000 crore to semiconductor sovereignty, is days from producing its first commercial chips, and hosts 100,000 chip engineers, that number was zero. Until this week.

Abhilash Chadhar, an Indian entrepreneur who spent a decade verifying silicon at Intel's AI accelerator division, ISRO, and a leading European AI accelerator company, earning nine Intel awards and shipping ten projects with working silicon, stood inside Bharat Mandapam on Day 3 of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 and launched the tool he wished had existed for the past ten years.

ChipOS is the first agentic operating system for semiconductor design. Not a copilot. Not a chatbot bolted onto a thirty-year-old EDA architecture. An operating system, vendor-neutral and hardware-agnostic, that orchestrates the full chip design lifecycle from RTL through verification and physical design to deployment on real silicon. An engineer describes a design intent in natural language. ChipOS's agents write the RTL, generate UVM testbenches, run verification, debug waveforms, and iterate autonomously, around the clock, until the job is done.

The Summit: A Watershed Moment for Global AI

The India AI Impact Summit 2026, running February 16 to 21 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, represents a historic inflection point: the first major global AI summit hosted in the Global South. More than 20 heads of state, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, convened alongside the world's most powerful technology executives for six days of sessions, policy announcements, bilateral agreements, and landmark investment pledges totalling $250 billion or more.

The summit was structured around seven thematic "chakras": Human Capital, Inclusion, Safe AI, Science, Resilience, Democratizing AI, and Economic Development. It spanned 500+ sessions, 850+ exhibitors, and 300,000+ registered participants across the week.

Day 1, February 16: Inauguration and AI Impact Expo

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the AI Impact Expo, which spanned 70,000 sq m with 300+ exhibitors from 30+ countries across 10+ thematic pavilions. Modi walked through India's AI capabilities, from sovereign language models to indigenous chip programs. A Guinness World Record attempt was launched in partnership with Intel India, ultimately collecting 250,946 AI responsibility pledges. S. Krishnan, Secretary of MeitY, announced that India's first commercial-scale chip production (Micron's Gujarat HBM facility) would begin by end of February.

Sessions on Day 1 included "Role of Contextual Norms in Designing Better and Accurate AI Systems" and "The Future of Service Delivery: Where DPI Meets AI". The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Pavilion launched with filmmaker Shekhar Kapur's masterclass on AI-powered storytelling, a screening of five Kathavatar AI short films (Language of Birds, Migoi, Uttarayan, The Barber's Secret, Yappasauras), and an Adobe-powered Content Creation Hub. The WAVES Creators Corner showcased 51 AI startups including a Zero-Touch Autonomous Newsroom, Bhasha-Wall (multilingual dubbing with AI sign language avatars), and an AI Podcast Studio.

Day 2, February 17: Investment Tsunami and Policy Announcements

Union Minister for Electronics & IT Ashwini Vaishnaw delivered a keynote announcing $200 billion in AI infrastructure commitments and $17 billion in venture capital funding. The day saw a cascade of historic investment pledges:

• Adani Group (Gautam Adani, Chairman): $100 billion investment to build the world's largest integrated data centre platform via AdaniConnex, scaling from 2GW to 5GW capacity.
• Reliance/Jio (Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries): ₹10 trillion (~$110 billion) for AI computing infrastructure including multi-GW data centres and edge computing.
• Microsoft (Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President): $17.5 billion India commitment, plus $50 billion for Global South AI infrastructure by 2030.

The "Putting AI to Work" panel featured David Zapolsky (Chief Global Affairs & Legal Officer, Amazon), Kanishka Narayan (UK MP), and S. Krishnan (Secretary, MeitY). Roshni Nadar Malhotra (Chairperson, HCL Technologies) spoke at a session on enterprise AI and international cooperation.

"Pushing the Frontier of AI in Education" brought together Dr. Sridhar Vembu (Zoho), Prof. Manindra Agrawal (IIT Kanpur), and Prof. Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay). "AI Commons for the Global South" featured Prachi Bhatia (Public Policy Manager, Meta) and Prof. P.J. Narayanan (IIIT Hyderabad).

Amitabh Kant, former G20 Sherpa, presented a striking datapoint: India now provides 33% more data to OpenAI than the United States, underscoring the country's outsized role as both a consumer and source of AI training data.

Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched SAHI (Strategy for AI in Healthcare for India) and BODH (Benchmarking of Digital Health AI), a health AI benchmarking platform developed by IIT Kanpur and the National Health Authority. Six AI Impact Knowledge Compendiums (casebooks) were released covering Health, Energy, Education, Agriculture, Gender Empowerment, and Accessibility, documenting 170+ AI innovations.

J-PAL South Asia hosted the full-day seminar "AI for Social Good: Impact That Works", featuring S. Krishnan (MeitY), Michael Kremer (University of Chicago), Iqbal Dhaliwal (J-PAL/MIT), and sessions on AI in health (Ziad Obermeyer), governance (Dean Karlan), work (David Yanagizawa-Drott), climate/agriculture (Maulik Jagnani), and education (Samantha Carter, Thiago Rached).

World Bank side events included "MDB Financing for AI Initiatives" (Antonio Zaballos of ADB; Jai Chordia of AIIB; Mahesh Uttamchandani, World Bank; Shankar Maruwada, EkStep; Arjun Venkatraman, Gates Foundation) and "Harnessing AI for Equitable and Resilient Health Systems" (Mamta Murthi, World Bank; Dr. Geetha Manjunath, Niramai; Dr. Karthik Adapa, WHO; Preetha Reddy, Apollo Hospitals; Pramod Varma, Networks for Humanity).

Other Day 2 sessions: "The AI-Energy-Finance Trifecta: Future-Proofing India's Datacentres"; "AI and Employability" (V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor; Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder of Info Edge); "AI in Manufacturing and MSMEs" (Dilip Sawhney, Rockwell Automation India; Gaurav Kataria, ITC Ltd); and "Rewarding Our Creative Future in the Age of AI", a fireside conversation between Minister Vaishnaw and Charles Rivkin (CEO, Motion Picture Association).

The AI for ALL: Global Impact Challenge Grand Finale featured 10 finalists with judges including Gaurav Jha (BCG), Tomoyuki Yamada (JICA), Courtney O'Donnell (Anthropic), Karan Mohla (B Capital), and Ramanan Ramanathan (IndiaAI). The AI by HER: Global Impact Challenge showcased women-led AI solutions with awards up to INR 2.50 crore. The YUVAi Global Youth Challenge grand finale and the AI Tinkerpreneur Bootcamp (top 50 student teams from 12,000+ participants, in collaboration with Intel) rounded out an intense day. The evening featured a Cultural Evening: "India's Journey from Tradition to Technology."

Day 3, February 18: Research Symposium and ChipOS Launch

The Research Symposium, with IIIT Hyderabad as knowledge partner (led by Prof. P.J. Narayanan, former Director), opened with a keynote by Dame Wendy Hall, Professor at the University of Southampton, and featured 250+ research submissions from the Global South.

Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, delivered a landmark keynote predicting AGI within five to eight years and calling the moment a "threshold moment" for AI, with potential impact "10 times the Industrial Revolution, at 10 times the speed." He was joined by Yoshua Bengio (Scientific Director, Mila; Professor, Universite de Montreal) and Yann LeCun (VP and Chief AI Scientist, Meta) in sessions on scientific AI.

Sarvam AI launched its Sarvam 30B and Sarvam 105B large language models, alongside Vikram (an AI chatbot) and the Indus multilingual app supporting 22 Indian languages.

Google announced a $15 billion investment in India: a gigawatt-scale AI hub in Visakhapatnam, new subsea cables, AI Skill House (targeting 10 million Indian leaders), a $30 million AI for Science Impact Challenge, and a new speech-to-speech translation model covering 70+ languages including 10 Indic languages.

Tech Mahindra, in partnership with NVIDIA, unveiled an 8-billion-parameter Hindi-first large language model.

FutureAtoms launched ChipOS, the first agentic operating system for semiconductor design. Representatives from CDAC expressed interest in exploring ChipOS for the DHRUV64 RISC-V processor program.

Additional Day 3 sessions included a "Policy Agenda" session led by Minister Vaishnaw and S. Krishnan presenting working-group outcomes, and "Boosting AI Adoption in the Global South" featuring Ria Strasser-Galvis (Anthropic) and Terah Lyons (MD & Global Head of AI and Data Policy, JPMorganChase). A Finance and Philanthropy Plenary was held off-site at The Oberoi New Delhi. In the evening, PM Modi hosted a Summit Dinner & Cultural Evening attended by 20+ heads of state and global tech leaders, featuring classical music and dance performances celebrating India's heritage.

Incident note: Galgotias University's robodog was expelled from the summit venue after a controversy involving its deployment.

Day 4, February 19: Leaders' Plenary

The Leaders' Plenary assembled the most powerful gathering of AI decision-makers in history. PM Modi delivered the inaugural address, unveiling his M.A.N.A.V. vision for AI: Moral and Ethical, Accountable, National Sovereignty, Accessible and Inclusive, Valid and Legitimate. He declared: "Design and develop in India. Deliver to the world. Deliver to humanity."

The global leaders who took the stage included:

• Emmanuel Macron, President of France: "AI has become a major field of strategic competition."
• Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations: "We are barrelling into the unknown"; announced the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI (40 members, IPCC-style body).
• Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI: "Democratisation of AI is the best way to ensure humanity flourishes." Announced OpenAI partnership with Tata Group, ChatGPT Enterprise, TCS HyperVault data centres scaling from 100MW to 1GW, and two new OpenAI offices in India.
• Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google/Alphabet: "AI is the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes."
• Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic: "Machines outperforming humans may be only years away." Announced Anthropic partnership with Infosys, a new Bangalore office, and Claude for Indian enterprises.
• Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries: Declared AI is moving from "cool demo" to basic infrastructure.
• Rishi Sunak, former Prime Minister of the UK: "No better place to discuss this AI transformation than India."
• Shantanu Narayen, Chairman and CEO of Adobe, in a fireside chat with Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises.
• Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture: "Humans in the lead, not humans in the loop."

Dedicated keynote addresses were delivered by N. Chandrasekaran (Chairman, Tata Sons), Vishal Sikka (CEO, Vianai, on AI productivity and safety), and Rishad Premji (Executive Chairman, Wipro, on enterprise AI transformation). A fireside chat between Yann LeCun (Meta) and Marya Shakil (Managing Editor, India Today) covered the AI evolution and the AGI debate. Other Day 4 speakers included Roy Jakobs (CEO, Philips), Tony Blair (Executive Chairman, Tony Blair Institute), and Nandan Nilekani (Co-founder and Chairman, Infosys).

A Rajya Sabha Fireside Chat on AI, NLP, and Parliamentary Process explored the intersection of artificial intelligence and legislative workflows. The YUVAi: Global Youth Challenge International Demo Day featured the top 20 teams from 2,500+ applications across 38 countries (ages 13 to 21), showcasing innovations in malaria detection, cervical cancer screening, flood early warning, and deepfake detection. Eight-year-old Ranvir Sachdeva became the summit's youngest keynote speaker.

Sriram Krishnan, Senior White House AI Policy Advisor, stated: "We want to make sure that the world uses the American AI stack." The New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments were unveiled, a voluntary framework adopted by global and Indian AI firms.

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw presented his 5-Layer AI Roadmap: Energy, Infrastructure, Compute, Models, Applications. In the evening, PM Modi chaired a CEO Roundtable with global technology and industry executives from Reliance, Microsoft, Google, and others to discuss investment, research collaboration, and responsible AI scaling.

Notable absences: Bill Gates cancelled his appearance due to the Epstein controversy; Ankur Vora of the Gates Foundation spoke in his place. Jensen Huang (CEO, NVIDIA) was absent due to illness; Jay Puri (Executive VP, NVIDIA) represented the company. A viral moment occurred when Sam Altman and Dario Amodei appeared to avoid shaking hands on stage.

Day 5, February 20: Global South Voices, GPAI Council and Delhi Declaration

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivered the session "AI for the Good of All: Brazilian Perspectives on the Future of AI", declaring: "The digital world has returned to its homeland."

A fireside chat between Nandan Nilekani and Dario Amodei (moderated by Rahul Matthan) explored AI diffusion vs. disruption, democratic guardrails, and inclusive growth. Amodei stated: "India has an absolutely central role" in the future of AI.

The morning opened with "Democratizing AI Compute & Digital Data Infrastructure" (Sangbu Kim, VP Digital & AI, World Bank; Ronnie Chatterjee, OpenAI; Sanjay Jain, Gates Foundation; Yann LeCun, Meta; Chenai Chair, Masakhane; Faith Waithaka, Africa Data Centres) and "AI for Agriculture". "AI & Open Networks: Creating Impact at Scale" brought together Nandan Nilekani (Networks for Humanity), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Biocon), James Manyika (Google & Alphabet), and Sangbu Kim (World Bank).

"From Pilots to Population: Scaling AI for Inclusive Impact" featured Esther Dweck (Minister, Brazil), Trevor Mundel (Gates Foundation), Nandan Nilekani, and Irina Ghose (Anthropic India MD), focusing on institutional reform, procurement, and digital public infrastructure. "AI and the New Frontier for Economic Progress: Linking Innovation and Inclusive Growth" was hosted by the World Bank with Johannes Zutt, Anu Bradford (Columbia Law School), Iqbal Dhaliwal (J-PAL/MIT), Michael Kremer (University of Chicago), and Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago).

Other sessions included "Industrializing AI at Scale" (Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO, Kyndryl), "Responsible AI at Scale" (Beenu Arora, Co-founder and CEO, Cyble, covering red teaming, deepfakes, and AI security governance), "Small AI for Big Impact" (World Bank, on affordable local-scale AI for development), "International AI Safety Coordination: What Policymakers Need to Know", and "Peace, Power and Perspectives: A Value-Based Approach to Trustworthy AI" (featuring Karianne Oldernes Tung, Norwegian Minister of Digitalisation; Yukio Teramura, Japan MIC; Luanna Roncaratti, Brazil Deputy Secretary of Digital Government; Sindhu Gangadharan, Nasscom Chairperson).

Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan met Cristiano Amon (President and CEO, Qualcomm), who pledged $150 million for Indian AI startups. Indian state Chief Ministers including Revanth Reddy (Telangana) and Devendra Fadnavis (Maharashtra) addressed the summit. Other speakers included Salil Parikh (CEO, Infosys), Mathias Cormann (Secretary-General, OECD), Doreen Bogdan-Martin (Secretary-General, ITU), and Sundar Pichai (CEO, Google/Alphabet).

Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, stated bluntly: "We totally reject global AI governance." The US announced three initiatives: a National Champions Initiative, the US Tech Corps (an AI Peace Corps), and a World Bank AI Fund.

The GPAI (Global Partnership on AI) Council convened at ministerial level to review multilateral AI cooperation and strategic direction. India joined Pax Silica, the US-led semiconductor and AI supply chain alliance, as the 11th member nation. The Delhi Declaration was endorsed by 80+ countries, while the US signed a separate bilateral declaration with India.

BharatGen Param2 was launched, a 17-billion-parameter model supporting 22 Indian languages, built with a Mixture-of-Experts architecture by IIT Bombay. NVIDIA announced the Nemotron-Personas-India dataset of 21 million synthetic Indic personas for AI training.

IT Minister Vaishnaw confirmed that total investment pledges had reached $250 billion or more. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai was illuminated to celebrate the summit. The day concluded with a Cultural Evening: "Hornbill Dream: Where Tradition Meets Technology."

Day 6, February 21: Extended Expo and Declaration Finalized

Extended expo hours were announced due to overwhelming public demand. The Delhi Declaration was finalized, capping a week that redefined the global AI power map.

Abhishek Singh, CEO of the IndiaAI Mission, described the country's AI vision in terms of national infrastructure: "We visualize artificial intelligence as a kinetic enabler which will transform the way we deliver services using the digital public infrastructure. India is a diverse country, multiple languages, and people prefer to access services in their own language, using the voice mode."

Professor Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley, speaking at a summit session, framed the stakes bluntly: "If you create AGI, you're creating entities that are more capable, more powerful than human beings. China and the US need to stop thinking about this as an arms race."

India's AI + Semiconductor Policy Push

The summit served as a launchpad for a cascade of government policy announcements that redefine India's AI and semiconductor trajectory:

• Compute scale-up: India is adding 20,000 GPUs to its existing 38,000-GPU national infrastructure, available at INR 65 per GPU-hour, with 3,000 next-gen GPUs earmarked for a sovereign AI cluster.
• IndiaAI Mission: INR 10,372 crore committed to the national AI mission, with 12 indigenous foundation models under development.
• Semiconductor Mission 2.0: Rs 40,000 crore allocated, focused on designing AI-focused chips locally. 10 semiconductor projects already approved.
• First commercial chip production: S. Krishnan, MeitY Secretary, confirmed India's first commercial-scale chip production by end of February 2026, at the Micron Gujarat HBM facility. In a pre-summit interview, Krishnan outlined the philosophy driving policy: "We want to put innovation first... regulation is not our immediate priority. Immediate priority is to encourage innovation, but we will not step back on regulation."
• $1.1B state-backed VC fund: Dedicated to AI and advanced manufacturing startups.

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw set the ambition ceiling, later confirming: "$250 billion-plus in AI investments across compute, data, and application layers."

The Investment Surge: $250B+ Across the AI Stack

The policy announcements were matched, and exceeded, by private-sector commitments. In one of the largest investment cascades at any AI summit globally, major technology companies pledged over $250 billion in AI infrastructure for India:

Product & Model Launches at the Summit

The summit doubled as a launchpad for a wave of AI products and models targeting India's multilingual, diverse market:

• BharatGen Param2: 17-billion-parameter model supporting 22 Indian languages, built with Mixture-of-Experts architecture by IIT Bombay. India's most ambitious sovereign language model to date.
• Sarvam 30B and 105B LLMs: Sarvam AI's foundation models, alongside the Vikram AI chatbot and Indus multilingual app (22 Indian languages).
• Tech Mahindra Hindi-first 8B LLM: An 8-billion-parameter Hindi-first language model developed in partnership with NVIDIA.
• SAHI and BODH: The Strategy for AI in Healthcare for India (SAHI) and the Benchmarking of Digital Health AI (BODH) platform, launched by Health Minister JP Nadda (developed by IIT Kanpur and NHA).
• Google Speech-to-Speech Translation: A new model covering 70+ languages including 10 Indic languages.
• Google AI Professional Certificate and AI Skill House: Targeting 10 million Indian leaders for AI upskilling.
• FutureAtoms ChipOS: The first agentic OS for semiconductor design, launched on Day 3.

Policy & Governance Outcomes

The summit produced a series of consequential policy outcomes that will shape global AI governance for years to come:

• Delhi Declaration: Endorsed by 80+ countries, establishing shared principles for responsible AI development and deployment.
• New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments: A voluntary framework adopted by global and Indian AI firms for responsible frontier AI development.
• India joins Pax Silica: India became the 11th member of the US-led semiconductor and AI supply chain alliance.
• US-India Bilateral Joint Declaration: A separate bilateral AI cooperation agreement between the United States and India.
• UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Announced by UN Secretary-General Guterres; 40 members, modelled on the IPCC.
• Vaishnaw's 5-Layer AI Roadmap: Energy, Infrastructure, Compute, Models, Applications.
• PM Modi's M.A.N.A.V. Vision: Moral and Ethical, Accountable, National Sovereignty, Accessible and Inclusive, Valid and Legitimate. A framework for India's AI principles.

Key Quotes from the Summit

The Gap Nobody Was Filling

Amid the quarter-trillion-dollar commitments and the grand policy declarations, one structural gap went almost entirely unaddressed.

India now has the semiconductor ambitions. Semiconductor Mission 2.0 with Rs 40,000 crore, ten approved projects, Micron's Gujarat facility starting commercial production this month. The nation's GPU infrastructure is scaling from 38,000 to 58,000 units. A $1.1 billion state-backed VC fund backs AI and advanced manufacturing.

India has the talent. Over 100,000 chip engineers working through the ChipIN Centre's shared EDA infrastructure.

But the tools these engineers use to design chips? Every single one is foreign. Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens EDA, all American and European companies, command the global Electronic Design Automation market. Their architectures trace back to the 1990s. India's semiconductor revolution was being built on borrowed tools.

Globally, the companies building agentic AI for chip design can be counted on one hand. ChipAgents in Silicon Valley has raised $74 million. Chipmind in Zurich has raised $2.5 million. The EDA incumbents, Cadence with ChipStack and Synopsys with AgentEngineer, are bolting AI features onto legacy architectures. The only proximate Indian player, Maieutic Semiconductors in Bengaluru ($6M), focuses narrowly on analog-only copilot design.

Not one company in India was building a full-stack agentic operating system for digital chip design. Until now.

What ChipOS Does

ChipOS is not another code assistant or copilot. It is a full operating system for semiconductor design that uses natural language to orchestrate the entire chip design lifecycle.

Natural Language Design & Verification

• Engineers describe what they need in plain English. ChipOS's agents write the RTL, generate UVM testbenches and SystemVerilog assertions, run simulations, and iterate.
• Debug waveforms through natural language: "Why did this signal toggle at cycle 450?" The agent analyzes waveform data, traces root cause, and proposes fixes.
• Summarize simulation logs automatically, identify failures, and auto-fix errors in the design.
• Agents run 24/7 until the task is substantially complete. No human babysitting needed.

Three-Layer Architecture

Design Lifecycle Coverage: Spec to RTL to Verify to PhysDesign to Signoff

• CPU Development: Design RISC-V processors from ISA specification.
• RTL Verification: Generate UVM testbenches, SystemVerilog assertions, coverage-driven verification.
• RTL Debug: Waveform analysis, assertion-based debug, failure triage.
• Physical Design: Automated floorplanning, placement, CTS, and routing guidance.
• PD Verification: DRC, LVS, ERC checks and static timing analysis.
• Deployment: One prompt to pipeline synthesis to compile and optimize to deploy to hardware.

Agent Packs: Specialized Environments

Key Impact: Compressing the Design Cycle

Verification engineers spend 60% of their time on tasks ChipOS automates. Verification is the largest share of cycle time in modern SoCs, often 70% of total design effort. ChipOS's always-on agents compress this dramatically: running tests, triaging failures, debugging waveforms, and iterating fixes autonomously.

Technical Scale

• MCP-native: Integrates with Claude, Cursor, VS Code and any MCP-compatible tool.
• Multi-provider AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, Grok, Ollama (local models).
• Enterprise-grade security: OWASP LLM Top 10, OWASP API Top 10, NIST AI RMF aligned.

Availability: macOS and Linux desktop app. Free tier, Pro at $29/month, Enterprise custom pricing.

CDAC and India's Indigenous Processor Program

During the summit, Chadhar engaged with representatives from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), India's premier computing R&D body, who expressed interest in exploring ChipOS for future iterations of India's indigenous processor program. CDAC's Dhruv64, the country's first domestically designed 64-bit dual-core RISC-V processor (1 GHz, 28nm) launched in December 2025, represents a milestone in India's silicon journey. With next-generation variants like DHANUSH64 (quad-core, 1.2 GHz) and DHANUSH64+ (2.0 GHz, 14nm) on the roadmap, agentic design tools like ChipOS could accelerate India's path to silicon self-reliance.

Pax Silica and the Geopolitics of Chips

The timing of the ChipOS launch is no accident. In the same week, India formally joined Pax Silica as the 11th member of the US-led semiconductor and AI supply chain alliance. The Delhi Declaration was endorsed by more than 80 countries. The US signed a separate bilateral AI cooperation agreement with India. Sriram Krishnan, Senior White House AI Policy Advisor, stated plainly: "We want to make sure that the world uses the American AI stack."

The message was unmistakable. Semiconductors are no longer a commercial commodity. They are a strategic asset. The nations that design chips, and control the tools used to design them, will shape the next century of economic and military power.

About FutureAtoms

FutureAtoms is a Netherlands-headquartered technology company building AI-powered tools for developers, engineers, and creators. Founded in 2024 by Abhilash Chadhar, the company's flagship product ChipOS is the first agentic OS for semiconductor design. FutureAtoms also builds SystemVerilogGPT (hardware AI assistant), Swaastik (healthcare AI), BevyBeats (AI music), and other products. Registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK).

Website: futureatoms.com