- Published on November 30, 2020
- In AI Features
What Does It Take To Build A Chip Industry In India: Interview With Balajee Sowrirajan Of Samsung Semiconductor India R&D
- By Ram Sagar
For this week’s feature interview, Analytics India Magazine got in touch with Balajee Sowrirajan, the Corporate Vice President at Samsung Semiconductor India R&D Center (SSIR), who has been overseeing India operations of the Memory, System LSI, Foundry business units and driving both strategy and culture for innovation and inclusion at SSIR. Balajee has been a driving force at SSIR for more than six years and paved the way for Samsung’s role as a technology leader in the semiconductor industry in India, making it the largest Global R&D Center for Samsung Semiconductor. In this interview, he shares his insights from a journey that spanned close to three decades.
AIM: Tell us how you got started into the field of semiconductors?
Balajee: While growing up, I was always inter
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Ram Sagar
I have a master's degree in Robotics and I write about machine learning advancements.
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