This week, our CEO Shelly Henry will take the stage at the Global Business Summit in New Delhi to speak about a shift many teams are already feeling. The bottleneck in modern innovation isn’t imagination. It’s the time, cost, and effort it takes to turn intent into silicon. The Global Business Summit is one of India’s premier international forums, bringing together global leaders from business, government, and technology to address the most pressing economic and innovation challenges of our time.
For a long time, advanced chip design has been slow, expensive, and heavily dependent on a small pool of specialized expertise. Verification has often been the biggest weight in the process, stretching schedules and consuming resources that even strong teams struggle to spare. That model has shaped who gets to build advanced silicon and who has to wait for it.
Shelly’s keynote, The New Silicon Era: How AI Is Redefining Who Gets to Build Chips, explores why that reality is changing now. AI is becoming an engineering force multiplier across design, verification, and system integration. Not as a shiny add-on, but as a practical way to scale the work, tighten feedback loops, and reduce friction without lowering the bar on rigor. Engineers still set the intent and make the calls. AI helps carry the load.
When the cost of building chips comes down, something else happens too. Entire new categories of products become more realistic. Industries that have been limited by silicon timelines and budgets can start to move differently, building purpose-designed hardware instead of waiting for general platforms to catch up.
That’s why New Delhi matters. The conversation around silicon is no longer confined to chip companies. It is showing up in national strategy, infrastructure planning, and the next wave of products being imagined across every sector. For countries like India, this shift opens a real opportunity over the next twenty years, not just to participate, but to lead in advanced computing, custom silicon, and digital infrastructure.
The keynote’s takeaway is simple, and it’s the line Shelly comes back to often because it captures the stakes clearly. AI doesn’t just disrupt markets. It resets who gets to innovate.
We’re looking forward to the conversations this sparks and to being part of a broader global dialogue on what comes next as silicon begins to move more like software.
