The $1 trillion chip era: How 2030’s super-electronics will redefine daily life

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By Hitesh Bhardwaj, GM – Semiconductors & Devices, Mitsubishi Electric India

In 2030, the most consequential computer in a factory will not be the one on a manager’s desk. It will be embedded in the robotic arm on the floor: sensing, deciding, and correcting in milliseconds, without waiting for instructions from a server room halfway across the building.

This is the shift that a trillion-dollar semiconductor industry is quietly engineering.

Global semiconductor revenue reached $793 billion in 2025, registering 21% growth year-on-year. According to the latest projection from Gartner, the revenue for 2026 will be USD 1.32 trillion, of which AI semiconductors will represent about 30%. By 2029, AI processing semiconductors are projected to generate $438 billion in revenue, representing a 752% increase from the current figure. These are not abstract market statistics. They are a signal that computing is moving, physically, structurally, out of centralised data centres and into...

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