Sanket
Monthly strategic intelligence on India’s industrial systems — semiconductors, AI infrastructure, critical minerals and defence. Distilled from a live signal engine into the few signals that move the board. Independent, infrequent, free of sponsored coverage.
Issue 02 · June 2026
◆ Issue 02Assembly Is Not Sovereignty
Nine reports this month, one structural finding: India assembles — but the value lives upstream, in the layers it does not own. From the parts inside its drones to the software it runs on.
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Nine reports this month, one structural finding: India assembles — but the value lives upstream, in the layers it does not own. From the parts inside its drones to the software it runs on.
A $3.3bn substrate plant, a $150bn target, and a PLI that finally bites. May was the month India stopped chasing the fab — and started claiming the one layer it can actually own.
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