How deep is the digital divide in India?
I don’t think there’s really a divide. The question is: Are you using technology for everybody? China has six times the number of computers that India has and has written lots more software in Mandarin and Cantonese for their own people, whereas we have done it for others. China has used computers effectively in manufacturing, in agriculture. This year, China will install 13 million PCs, of which 8 or 9 million they will make themselves. We have just 3 million PCs. It’s not that we’re not doing well, but we’re not doing enough. We have to have a domestic digital industry and speed up PC use. It’s doable to make a sub-$200 PC, but it needs a huge initiative. We need more microelectronic engineers who understand the hardware. They will build embedded software, functionality in devices. You can’t build up an industry with just 250 to 300 microelectronic engineers a year. We have requested the government to select 40 more colleges to provide a master’s program in microelectronics. The Indi
