Veldhoven, Jan. 23 -- Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday explained the significance of his visit to Veldhoven in the Netherlands, stating that India has embarked on building a new semiconductor industry and that lithography remains the most complex and precision-intensive process in chip manufacturing.

Speaking to ANI, Vaishnaw said lithography, which involves printing circuits onto semiconductor wafers, is a critical step in the entire value chain.

Noting that the semiconductor equipment maker ASML, based in the Netherlands, is the world's leading provider of lithography tools and enables the manufacturing of almost every semiconductor chip globally, the Union Minister said that India's upc...