Junction: Two-Week Chip Fab Retreat in Bangalore to Train India's Semiconductor Talent
itsarnavb · x · 2026-10-29
Lagrange Point and HackerFab launch Junction, a two-week immersive semiconductor fabrication retreat in Bangalore this December, flying in students from across India.
- Hands-on projects: building semiconductor equipment, optimizing fab process flows, improving open-source chip designs
- Mentors from academia and industry, with student semiconductor researchers co-living with residents for high-bandwidth knowledge transfer
- Rationale: India still needs thousands of semiconductor engineers but lacks the ecosystem; the industry runs on tacit, apprenticeship-based know-how — a chicken-and-egg problem for new entrants
- HackerFab spent the last year building fab capabilities from scratch at IIT Bombay; graduates are expected to seed similar talent at their home institutions
- Applications open for December 2026
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