'India will soon make equipment for semiconductor manufacturing'
India will soon start making equipment for semiconductor manufacturing, Union telecom and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.
«The entire semiconductor ecosystem of fabs, ATMP units, chemicals, gases, substrate, consumables and equipment for semiconductor manufacturing will be made in India,» he said.
He was speaking at the inauguration of American chip equipment supplier Applied Materials' India Validation Centre in Bengaluru which was set up at a cost of $20 million.
Such labs are present in the US, Singapore, China and Korea. The India Validation Centre will have a workforce of 500 people.
The company last year announced that it will set up an engineering centre in Bengaluru with a total investment of $400 million over four years to develop and commercialise technologies for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Vaishnaw said that the components that were earlier imported from Japan, Korea and Taiwan are being made by the company here now.
«Today, all the four agreements made during the Prime Minister's state visit to the US have been materialised,» Vaishnaw said.
The construction of Micron's ATMP has commenced. In addition, LAM Research's proposal to deliver a virtual nano fabrication environment through its Semiverse Solutions to train semiconductor engineers in India has also started.
«The first training course in the Indian Institute of Science has started with 35 students,» the minister said. The third agreement was in relation to a centre of Applied Materials to be set up in India, he
