Semiconductor Partnership

Current Context : India and Singapore signed four Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the fields of digital technologies, semiconductors, health cooperation and skill development.

• It will facilitate closer cooperation between India and Singapore in the areas of digital technologies, such as DPI, cyber-security, 5G and emerging technologies such as Super-computing, Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence.

ABOUT SEMICONDUCTORS

• It is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
• Its resistivity generally falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way.
• Silicon (Si) is the most commonly used semiconductor material due to its abundance, stability, and well-understood properties. Other semiconductor materials include germanium (Ge), gallium arsenide (GaAs), and silicon carbide (SiC).