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While the Government is gloating over huge successes in the software segment, it is very concerned with the languishing hardware industry. It has constituted a high-power committee to explore ways to boost hardware. At the most basic level, personal computer adoption is at only 14 per thousand and the Government wants to bring this number to 85 per thousand by 2009. If this goal is to be implemented, the number of PCs needs to be increased from 4.3 million to 28 million by 2009.
While this may be a great low hanging fruit to aspire, there needs to be broader and deeper focus on just PC manufacturing but encouraging value-added products that facilitate testing, components for larger products, intelligent industrial components, Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) development, and Field Programmable Gate Array development is important for India to move up the food chain.
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