The 2nd episode of Viksit Tech 47 conversations is out. My guest is Arvind Bali sir. We discussed the global dimensions of Viksit Bharat, including how India's innovations at scale will benefit emerging markets, why tech bullying must stop, and how future innovations will propel India. Watch the full conversation below.

What the recently announced @ericsson results tell us about the #telecom sector and #India market. My analysis in this PoV @EricssonIndia techarcinsights.com/ericsson…

If you are an investor, a startup mentor, or someone tracking the startup space in India, then this is for you. There are some conversations that always stay with you as a researcher and become the basis for a report you want to write in the future. I remember an office chat back in 2013-14, when startup funding was really in the news and unicorn, a fashion word. My fundamental question was that even if some ideas get abundant funding for various reasons, we are forgetting a core principle of economics: resources are finite. So, someone is always paying an opportunity cost at the other end. Today, as a researcher, I am so happy that we did this report. We've been working on it for the past few months. Do read this report, our first in this domain. The Burn Economy Report – Has India’s startup boom spent more than it built? techarcinsights.com/reports/…

Indian tech is shifting gears, and Viksit Tech 47 has just started at exactly the right time. September told two stories. Lava posted ₹500 crore in revenue, one of its best months ever. Qubo did ₹50 crore in a single month. Meanwhile, Zoho, one of India’s most admired software companies, announced a freeze on annual pay hikes. Hardware is accelerating. Software is easing off the throttle. The centre of gravity in India’s tech ecosystem is moving toward the brands that design, build and ship. Viksit Tech 47 exists to give wings to those Indian brands, and it arrives just as the ecosystem turns that corner. Some platforms are built for a moment. This one found its moment on day one. #ViksitTech47 #ViksitBharat2047 #IndianBrands #MakeInIndia @exploreIMC @techarcinsights @LavaMobile #qubo @Zoho

#Techarc #InfiSights has scored every chipset in India’s smartphone market on one measure — the Gain Score, 0 to 100 — for how well placed it is to gain this festive season. #MediaTek leads at 100, carrying 54% of festive demand across 110 models. #Qualcomm follows at 82 on 34% and 65 models. #Apple reaches 90 on just six. But the part-level ranking is where it gets interesting. #Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 tops the market at 100, #Dimensity 7400 is at 97, and Apple A19 Pro ties it at 97. The flagship Snapdragon 8 family sits at 76 as a family — not because the silicon is weak, but because Premium Pro and Luxe together carry under 6% of festive demand. The volume, and therefore the gain, is in ₹12,000–50,000. One part deserves its own mention: Dimensity 6300 is in 28 models across nine brands. Nothing else in the market is designed in that widely. What the Gain Score measures: how fast the phones carrying a chipset are selling now, whether they’re accelerating, and how satisfied their buyers are — scored against the whole market, so a 90 means the same thing in any segment. @Qualcomm @qualcomm_in @Snapdragon @Snapdragon_IN @MediaTekIndia @MediaTek @Apple @Samsung @Google @UNISOCTech @techarcinsights

𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 — 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 2026 🎯 Nine in ten units of festive demand sit in two segments — Mid (₹12–25K) at 52.2% and Premium (₹25–50K) at 40.6%. Entry, Premium Pro and Luxe together account for 7.3%. 🎯 Best placed to gain overall: Vivo (100), Apple (91), Realme (85), Oppo (82), Samsung (81). 🎯 The five models with the highest gain scores are all priced between ₹21,999 and ₹30,999: Realme P4 (100), vivo T4 Pro (99), Realme P4 Power (96), Oppo K14 5G (96), Vivo T4R 5G (95). 🎯 Mid is the most contested segment on the board — Oppo (86), Samsung (81), Realme (81), Motorola (80) and Ai+ (79) are separated by just seven points. 🎯 Premium is the opposite: Vivo leads at a clean 100, ahead of Motorola and Realme at 93. 🎯 Apple owns the top end on both counts — 97 in Premium Pro and 96 in Luxe — with Samsung a distant second in each. 🎯 Entry is the weakest of all segments. Redmi tops it at 60, and no other brand clears 41, because the segment carries only 1.7% of festive demand and every score is set against the whole market. 🎯 Four of the top five models overall also top their own segment, so the market-wide leaderboard and the Mid/Premium leaderboards are largely the same phones. 🎯 Scale does not decide the ranking: Vivo leads overall on 23 models while Apple reaches 91 on six, and iQOO makes the Premium top five with a single model. What the Gain Score means? The Gain Score is a single number from 0 to 100 that answers one question. How well placed is this brand or model to gain during the festive sale? It is built from three things - how fast the phone is selling right now, whether it is speeding up or slowing down compared with other phones of the same age, and, how happy its buyers are? @techarcinsights

The India Mobile Congress 2026 comes to an end. But not the learnings and takeaways. Here I summarise what I sensed being on the ground. techarcinsights.com/from-dem… @exploreIMC @techarcinsights

IMC - where you feel innovation in the air. @techarcinsights @exploreIMC @Officejmscindia @DoT_India

The 1st edition of Viksit Tech 47 report - Building India’s Global Brands was unwrapped yesterday at the India Mobile Congress 2026. The report was released by Pankaj Mohindroo Chairman India Cellular & Electronics Association (ICEA) Jaswinder Ahuja Adviser India Semiconductor Mission Anku Jain MD MediaTek India Sunil Raina MD Lava International Limited Nikhil Rajpal CEO Qubo Himanshu Tandon CBO Mivi Danish Khan Editor Technology and Telecom Moneycontrol The report is a roadmap for creating strong and sustainable gadgets, devices, appliances and connected vehicles brands from India 🇮🇳. For me personally while the entire report is close to my heart, the TAME framework is one of the biggest takeaways. It’s an evolution of Indian brands. The report was released as part of Viksit Tech 47 spotlight programme of @exploreIMC and @techarcinsights

Pre-business day at #IMC2026. All geared up for the big day tomorrow. The main highlight of course is the inauguration by the Honourable PM. For us at Techarc we are excited about the #ViksitTech47 agenda lined up too. 2pm onwards join us for Viksit Tech 47 conversations and more. Stay tuned…

Vivo Next 2026

1st Viksit Tech 47 panel announced

A wonderful time spent at @MediaTek Tech Day last evening amidst a galaxy of industry leaders, media friends, influencers and fellow analysts. It’s a good sign to see all key OEMs increasingly preferring MediaTek for their flagship portfolio. Some great #smartphones powered by MediaTek Dimensity chipset are launching soon. At Techarc we have consistently seen Dimensity performing holistically well against customer expectations. Compared to the competition like @Qualcomm #Snapdragon, Dimensity powered smartphones show a balanced benchmark score for all major features and functions. A flagship customer needs not to have a carpenter’s toolbox to choose a different smartphone for every new use case. A user can confidently use a Dimensity powered smartphone for any use case be it photography, gaming, binge watching, productivity or any other major use case. That perfectly aligns with the expectation of a flagship user. Holistic performance and uniform experience. It was great being part of the panel where we discussed in detail the role of agentic AI and the future of flagships. @MediaTekIndia

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