India joins US-led Pax Silica semiconductors, AI supply chain group

India on Friday joined Pax Silica, a United States-led group to coordinate supply chains for semiconductors, artificial intelligence and critical minerals.

Pax Silica has 11 other members including Australia, Israel, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom. The European Union participates in the group as a non-signatory member.

The US had launched Pax Silica on December 11 saying that it intends to bring together “trusted partners” for a “strategic initiative” to create a secure supply chain from critical minerals and energy inputs to advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence infrastructure and logistics.

The pact was signed at a ceremony in Delhi attended by Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor and US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg.

Gor described India’s entry into Pax Silica as “strategic and essential”, adding that the group “will define the 21st century economic and technological order”.

#WATCH | Delhi: Pax Silica Declaration signed between India and the US, in the presence of Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology and Jacob Helberg, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs pic.twitter.com/QyHkM2pebY— ANI (@ANI) February 20, 2026

The signing took place on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit.

The five-day event, which began on Monday, has been promoted as the first major gathering on artificial intelligence in the Global South....

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