HCL to supply 25% of India’s display chips in two years: Roshni Nadar
Jewar: HCL Group, the parent firm of India’s third-largest tech services company HCLTech, aims to supply chips for a quarter of all of India’s displays within as soon as two years, chairperson of the group Roshni Nadar-Malhotra said on Saturday.The top executive, who also happens to be the only woman at the helm of one of India’s six large-cap IT services firms, was speaking at the inauguration of the company’s joint-venture chip assembly plant for displays in Jewar, Uttar Pradesh.“It’s too early to discuss client names, but there is ample demand, and India has a huge market. We’ll roll out the first commercial display chip from our plant in 2028, and look to scale up to our peak capacity of 36 million chips per month very soon.
About 60-70% of our production will be solely for the domestic market, where we believe there’s ample demand—in fact, this supply will cater to 25% of all of India’s display chip demand,” Nadar-Malhotra said.The outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (Osat) facility was approved for incentives under the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity)’s India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) in May last year, at a net investment outlay of ₹3,700 crore. Out of this investment, Centre and state government incentives will fund “around 65-70% of the project cost", the executive added.To be sure, the venture will operate independently of HCL Technologies as a privately held joint venture, India Chip Private Ltd, with Taiwan-headquartered global contract manufacturer Foxconn.
HCL Corp. holds a 60% stake in the joint venture, with Foxconn holding the remaining 40%.HCL Corp.
is a part of HCL Group, and was founded by billionaire Shiv Nadar. He also set-up HCL Technologies Ltd.
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