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11 cos keen to set up semiconductor plant in India



In a push to India's dream to emerge as global manufacturing hub for meeting domestic demand for electronics and other technology devices, 11 companies, both foreign and local, have evinced interest to set up semiconductor wafer fabrication plant.

"Department of Information Technology (DIT) has received proposals from 11 companies to set up wafer fabrication plant in India. There are couple of domestic firms and other are foreign firms," PS Narotra, senior director and head, International Cooperation and Electronics Hardware Industry, DIT, told reporters on sidelines of 'Electronica India 2011'.


Electronic chips are key components of all electronic devices like mobile phone, computer, television and others. These chips govern functions of device.

India had been eagerly looking for interest of semiconductor companies to set up an electronic chip making plant here. The Ministry for Communications and IT also announced a special incentive plan, Semiconductor Policy 2007, to attract investment in the field.

The policy did receive investment for solar plants, but failed to get interest from chip-making firm which was largely attributed to the global economic crisis.

Global chip making firms like Intel, ST Microelectronics, Infineon Technology and other didn't see favourable condition to set-up their plants in India.

It is estimated that setting up electronic chip making plant involves investment of over $2 billion and a plant can suffice need of billions of devices.

In April, Indian government agreed to provide support of up to Rs 25,000 crore for setting up of two wafer fabrication plant in the country. The government has also formed an empowered committee to negotiate with players and facilitate their investment by providing them favourable conditions.

Estimates show that India's demand for electronics products (including telecom) will be $400 billion by 2020.

If the initiatives are not taken to boost local manufacturing of electronics , the production of electronics hardware is likely to grow to $104 billion by 2020 at the existing rate of growth, creating a demand and supply gap of $296 billion, which would have to be met through imports.

The three-day fair, Electronica India 2011, that started here today is hosting over 900 exhibitors with country pavilions from China, Japan, Spain, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.
 
Thanks sir. just yesterday i think about any news on it. we need to grow up in electronic goods market like japan. IC (Integrated circuit) will be chiper and better. also need mobile manufacturing countries Good sir thanks
 
a good news indeed...it will bring in more jobs and less imports :yahoo:
 
Thanks sir. just yesterday i think about any news on it. we need to grow up in electronic goods market like japan. IC (Integrated circuit) will be chiper and better. also need mobile manufacturing countries Good sir thanks

Hope that these project moves quickly , this is of national importance.there was one such project that moved to AP from KAR whats the status of that.Was it abandoned?
 
Most probably in Hyderabad...Bangalore and Chennai too congested, Kolkata- Industries not welcome. Mumbai + Pune- No gonna happen. NCR- land not available...
 
Most probably in Hyderabad...Bangalore and Chennai too congested, Kolkata- Industries not welcome. Mumbai + Pune- No gonna happen. NCR- land not available...

Any place where Medha patkar types doesn't show up . hey Mysore has land , water and good environment :azn:
 
Most probably in Hyderabad...Bangalore and Chennai too congested, Kolkata- Industries not welcome. Mumbai + Pune- No gonna happen. NCR- land not available...
Could also be gujarat - ahmedabad/gandhinagar ....
 
Could also be gujarat - ahmedabad/gandhinagar ....

I will not appreciate that because of gujarat shares its border with pakistan in case of war it will be doom, a worst location to have and we are already over dependent on Gujarat-Mumbai Pune belt for most of the India's GDP.
 
welcome to Pune.
all the resources are available, skilled man power, land, infrastructure, water.
 
prant vad

stop now.

Let it be any where in india where water is available. water is big need for IC making
 
India needs a modern semiconductor wafer fabrication more than anything else. We have almost everything more or less except this. I have heard govt setting up one with public private partnership long ago which still did not materialize.
 
by 2020 Indian Elecronic Hardware import will be 74% of total demand? What the hell our Ministry of Industry, Trade & Commerce is doing?
 
India needs a modern semiconductor wafer fabrication more than anything else. We have almost everything more or less except this. I have heard govt setting up one with public private partnership long ago which still did not materialize.

Of Course India is one of the largest and Fastest growing markets of VLSI Design. But Almost all of our Designs goes to foreign Fablabs. And We also have to import Chips for our Telecom Equipments and some Strategic Assets. So It is necessary to have some chip foundries of our own ( In 32-45 nm Range) so that We can save our intellectual property of VLSI Design and make our Telecoms Equipment Chips ourself.
 

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