India, March 16 -- Recent headlines and self-congratulatory government advertisements have been gushing about India setting up a semiconductor plant (or fab) at Dholera in Gujarat. A fab has been New Delhi's dream for a while now. What most headlines don't talk about, and what the ads hide, say critics, are that by the time these fabs get operational, the chips (semiconductors) churned out will be 'old technology'. Their case is that by the time this facility goes operational, it will begin by producing 28 nanometer (nm) chips. And by the time it acquires the capabilities to produce 26 nm chips, the world would have moved on, and the chips Dholera produces might be obsolete. It is pertinent then to investigate if these critics have a point....