New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- India is making rapid strides in digital innovation, encompassing digital credit, fast mobile data, and large language models (LLMs), Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated on Saturday.

Emphasising the importance of data sovereignty, he said data must remain geographically within India.

He noted that India is now using cutting-edge technology to produce some of the world's most advanced chips.

"Earlier, it used to be 5 nanometers, 7 nanometers. Now 2-nanometer chips are here; they are the most complex of chips, the smallest. Those are now designed in India," he added, holding up the wafer as an example of India's progress.

Explaining the precision involved in chip fabrication, Vaishnaw said, "This is a very co...