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Nidhi Singal

Nidhi Singal

Nidhi Singal is a technology journalist reporting on how emerging technologies are reshaping economies, companies, and nations. With over two decades of experience, she covers the full arc of the tech industry—from mobile telecommunications to consumer and enterprise technologies, and from semiconductors to artificial intelligence. She also tracks climate tech, sustainability, and net-zero transitions, examining how technology, policy, and industry intersect to drive decarbonization. Nidhi is currently a Consulting...

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Even as its foundry ambitions remain under scrutiny, Intel is recalibrating its role in another critical layer of the AI stack.

From Intel Inside era to fighting for a comeback in the AI age

by Nidhi Singal |Apr 10, 2026

As Nvidia dominates AI chips and TSMC leads manufacturing, Intel is betting on partnerships and scale to stay in the race.

Japan’s reset offers both a cautionary tale and a strategic blueprint.

Why Japan's semiconductor consolidation is a wake-up call for India's chip ambitions

by Nidhi Singal |Apr 9, 2026

As Japan’s chipmakers move to consolidate, India’s ambitions face a familiar test of scale, focus and global competitiveness.

West Asia is a key supplier of helium, bromine, sulphur and other chemicals essential to chip manufacturing, and any disruption can ripple quickly across fabs and OSAT facilities worldwide.

West Asia crisis: A war far from fabs is rattling the chip supply chain

by Nidhi Singal |Mar 20, 2026

West Asia may not host fabs or packaging plants, but it plays a critical role in the semiconductor value chain through raw materials and industrial inputs.

How Indian conglomerates are shifting India’s semiconductor playbook

How Indian conglomerates are shifting India’s semiconductor playbook

by Nidhi Singal |Mar 19, 2026

After decades of enabling global giants, Indian conglomerates are shifting India's semiconductor playbook from services to higher-value chip design.

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Apple bets on affordable MacBook Neo to turn iPhone loyalty into laptop sales in India

by Nidhi Singal |Mar 11, 2026

With a starting price of Rs 69,900, Apple’s new laptop aims to tap India’s high-volume PC segment and convert iPhone users into Mac buyers.

The facility is an ATMP plant, short for Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging. In simple terms, this is where finished silicon chips are converted into usable products that can be installed inside computers, servers and electronic devices.

Micron’s Sanand plant puts India on the chip map, now the hard part begins for the country

by Nidhi Singal |Mar 5, 2026

The $2.7 billion ATMP facility signals credibility for India’s semiconductor ambitions, however, attracting fabs will require deeper ecosystem growth.

For now, the disruptions remain contained. But the evolving conflict has already revealed how tightly global cloud networks, subsea cables and critical digital systems are intertwined with geopolitical stability. 

Iran-Israel-US conflict disrupts cloud infra, exposes global digital vulnerabilities

by Nidhi Singal |Mar 3, 2026

From AWS outages in the UAE to rising cyber threats and cable chokepoints, the Iran-Israel-US conflict is exposing the physical fragility of the digital world.

The Adani group has also outlined a further $150 billion investment across manufacturing, servers and sovereign cloud services, though detailed deployment plans remain undisclosed.

Inside Adani’s $100 billion bet on sovereign AI infrastructure

by Nidhi Singal |Feb 24, 2026

Adani’s $100 billion investment focuses on building green-energy-powered AI data centre capacity through AdaniConnex, expanding its current 2-gigawatt footprint toward a target of 5 GW by 2035.

Membership in Pax Silica is expected to unlock investment, integration into secure supply chains and institutional backing for India’s semiconductor ambitions.

Pax Silica membership positions India at the heart of a new US-led tech order

by Nidhi Singal |Feb 20, 2026

India’s inclusion marks a notable shift in its global positioning. Long viewed primarily as a technology market, the country is now being courted as a contributor to supply-chain resilience.

Nvidia is deepening its presence across infrastructure, model development and enterprise deployment

Nvidia embeds itself at the heart of India’s sovereign AI push

by Nidhi Singal |Feb 18, 2026

Nvidia is working with Indian providers including Yotta, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and E2E Networks to build large-scale sovereign compute capacity within the country.