Thiruvananthapuram, March 6 -- The soon-to-be-announced Bharat Semiconductor Research Centre (BSRC) will have a regional centre at IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, informed Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday.

Bharat Semiconductor Research Centre, a global standard academia-government-private sector-start-up partnered institution, will be announced soon, the minister had said earlier this week.

"We are finally living at a time when a semiconductor engineer is also a Superhero -- that itself tells you how far our country has come, how far we have progressed in the age of technology under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi ji," Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said while addressing students, resear...