Like-minded nations collaborating with India to make it a chip manufacturing hub: Krishnan
semiconductor manufacturing destination, a top Electronics and IT ministry official said on Sunday. In an interview with PTI, Ministry of Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said pilot facilities of US storage semiconductor maker Micron and Tata Electronics have already rolled out chips, and their main plants in Gujarat will begin to produce made-in-India chips from the later part of 2025.
«Globally, and thanks to geopolitical circumstances, there is an increasing realisation that semiconductors are a very important and strategic commodity, and therefore, we need substantial resilience in the production of semiconductors,» Krishnan said.
The importance of resilience in semiconductors was underlined during the pandemic when many industries — including the auto industries, medical devices industries and other electronics, and consumer electronics industries — suffered because they did not have access to chips, which led to a belief that there should be greater diversification, especially for sourcing of semiconductors, he added.
«In order to build this resilience, many like-minded countries are collaborating with India to develop India as the next major destination, where semiconductor manufacturing can actually take place. This is fundamentally to build resilience in the global semiconductor value chain. We have an agreement with the United States, European Union, UK, Japan, and now, with Singapore as well,» Krishnan noted.
The government has approved projects entailing investments of Rs 1.5 lakh crore to
