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IIT Kharagpur ties up with Taiwan school

IIT Kharagpur ties up with Taiwan school

The Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) has is in the process of signing a memorandum of understanding with National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) of Taiwan which will facilitate research collaboration, joint research, joint mentoring for students and student and faculty exchange especially in the field of chip designing and fabrication. While the Indian market has facilities and trained manpower for chip designing, those for chip fabrication are not available. Although IIT-KGP has a VLSI (very large scale integration) designing laboratory, we are still trying to set up a chip laboratory for chip fabrication.

However, even if we do so, there is a serious dearth of trained manpower or researchers in this field. Since Taiwan is one of the world leaders in this technology, we chose NCTU as our partner university where our students can go for research in this field, explained Dhrubesh Biswas, chief technology officer at IIT-KGP.

More : business-standard.com

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