During the press conference on India AI Impact Summit 2026, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the summit is going to be the world’s biggest AI summit. #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India Ashwini Vaishnaw | Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India

Explaining the key purpose of his visit, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw highlighted that India is building a new semiconductor ecosystem, where lithography—the highly complex and precision-intensive process of printing circuits on wafers—plays a critical role. ASML, based in the Netherlands, is the global leader in lithography tools and enables the manufacture of nearly every chip produced worldwide. India’s upcoming semiconductor fab at Dholera will d