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Nidhi Singal

Nidhi Singal

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Nidhi Singal began her journalism career with mobile phones. While her romance with gadgets is unlikely to end anytime soon, enterprise technology is her new found love. Of her career spanning over 14 years, she has been with India Today Group with for over 13 years, writing on enterprise and consumer technology for Business Today.

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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.

Apple Macbook Neo

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.

For India, GPUs are not just components. They are the foundation of its AI strategy.

Geopolitics of GPUs: How the US-India interim deal shields New Delhi’s AI ambitions

by Nidhi Singal |Feb 11, 2026

The latest interim agreement on reciprocal and mutually beneficial trade between the US and India now offers what industry observers describe as strategic reassurance. It does not change export rules ...

Under ECMS, the government is prioritising domestic production of high-value components that currently account for the bulk of India’s electronics imports.

Budget 2026: Govt hikes ECMS outlay to Rs 40,000 crore to boost electronics component manufacturing

by Nidhi Singal |Feb 1, 2026

Industry executives say the higher allocation reflects a growing recognition that India cannot rely on assembly alone.