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The Dholera plant of the Tata Group can produce India’s first semiconductor chip by 2026.

The Dholera plant of the Tata Group can produce India's first semiconductor chip by 2026.

There is a possibility of India’s first semiconductor chip from Tata Group’s plant in Dholera by 2026.

Frank Huang, Chairman of Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, revealed in an interview with the Economic Times that Dholera will start with 28-nanometer chips, which “can later be scaled down to 22 nanometers.”

In Dholera, a mega semiconductor fabrication facility worth 91,000 crore rupees is jointly operated with PSMC by Tata Electronics. The manufacturing capacity of this fab will be up to 50,000 wafers per month, incorporating data analytics and machine learning to achieve industry-leading factory efficiency. The next generation factory automation capabilities will be included to achieve the highest factory competence in the industry.

In addition to manufacturing high-performance computer chips, this facility will also produce power management chips for electric vehicles (EVs), telecommunications, defense, automotive, consumer electronics, displays, power electronics, and more.

Power management chips are used in high-voltage, high-current applications.

PSMC is renowned for its expertise in the logic and memory foundry segment. PSMC operates six semiconductor foundries in Taiwan.

The cabinet has approved proposals for three semiconductor plants with an estimated cost of 1.26 lakh crore rupees, two of which are in Gujarat and one in Assam.

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had said, “The typical timeline for setting up a general semiconductor fab is 3-4 years for production. However, efforts will be made to reduce this.”

Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test Private Limited will establish a chip assembly and testing unit in Assam with an investment of 27,000 crore rupees. Additionally, CG Power and Japan’s Renesas will set up a semiconductor plant in Sanand, Gujarat, with an estimated cost of 7,600 crore rupees, capable of producing 15 million chips per day.

In addition to the chip assembly plant being established by Micron, a memory chip manufacturer based in the United States, there are also plans for a chip assembly plant worth 22,516 crore rupees.

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