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Semiconductors and Software and IT services

Semiconductors buys from Software and IT services; semiconductors depends on software and IT services.

Semiconductors (industry) and Software and IT services (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹2.1 per ₹100 · Semiconductors buys from Software and IT services

Semiconductors buys goods or services from Software and IT services; counted through every round of supply, ₹2.1 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹2.1 of every ₹100 of Semiconductors output, all rounds
  • ₹0.8 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 5 of 5 · Software and IT services → Semiconductors

3 of the enterprise types in Semiconductors depend on software and IT services.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • EDA software and IP-core vendors: tools are software products built and supported like enterprise software (criticality 5 of 5)
  • Fabless chip designers: design software and engineering services, much of it delivered from Indian design centres (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Component distributors: ordering and inventory systems (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.