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The Indian government has established a committee to identify technology and potential investors that could set up India's first two commercial semiconductor wafer fabs, the country's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said.

The committee, which is to submit its report by July 31, will also recommend the nature and size of government support to the fabs, which could range from equity participation to grants and subsidies in physical or financial terms, the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

The ministry put the rough cost of the two fabs at US$5 billion.

An investment of that level should be enough to pick up two second-hand fabs, said Poornima Shenoy, president of India Semiconductor Association (ISA), a trade body.

India does not currently have a commercial fab and that's been a bottleneck for the country's electronics industry. The defense and space ministries run small fabs which mainly meet the requirements of government agencies.

It is good that the government has decided to take chip manufacturing seriously, Shenoy said.

An earlier government committee recommended, among other things, that the country set up semiconductor wafer fabs, and also give preference in government procurement to locally manufactured electronic products.

The domestic market does not require high-end, state-of-the-art fabrication capacity, said Rajiv Jain, associate director for government affairs at ISA. Most of the current demand for semiconductors in India can be met from a fab that processes 200 mm (millimeter) to 300 mm wafers, Jain added.

India has emerged as a key chip design location for a number of multinational companies including Intel and Texas Instruments.

India Plans Its First Commercial Semiconductor Fabs - PCWorld
 
such high pollution industry is considered junk in China, glad to see india is picking it up.
I would be more than happy to see all those fabs in China move to india in the next few years.
 
Whenever some one posts a thread on semiconductors in India and "peaceful" logs in out of no where.

Is it just a coincidence ?
 
now this is typical propaganda. india lack the ability to design any core components.

e.g. is there any india designed CPU? no, there is nothing.

India does lot of design...

We lack in Silicon industry... I think government can safely invest in it .... Government can get returns in higher rate... Indian demand is enormous .....
This will pay way for robust ECE & other electronic sector in India..
 
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!! This will be the next phase of the growth story running on hardware companies. Hopefully, high end electronics will get cheaper now:yahoo:
 
now this is typical propaganda. india lack the ability to design any core components.

e.g. is there any india designed CPU? no, there is nothing.

source

There are lots of Indians working day and night for Intel and AMD in labs in INDIA to invent new stuff for them.SO,we have Indian who know how to make CHIPS.
 
such high pollution industry is considered junk in China, glad to see india is picking it up.
I would be more than happy to see all those fabs in China move to india in the next few years.

It is 2nd time your post is not totally nonsense;)
 
now this is typical propaganda. india lack the ability to design any core components.

e.g. is there any india designed CPU? no, there is nothing.

So who is your father of Intel computer chips ,from which you usually use to type bullsh*t and get
banned ,we used to lag behind in infrastructure but we always got the innovation thing going on in our brain but now infrastructure too coming up big time..
Vinod Dham is among the most distinguished Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists in the world. A technology trailblazer - he is popularly known as ‘Father of the Pentium chip'
.See thats your Father of intel :coffee::azn:
 
So who is your father of Intel computer chips ,from which you usually use to type bullsh*t and get
banned ,we used to lag behind in infrastructure but we always got the innovation thing going on in our brain but now infrastructure too coming up big time..
Vinod Dham is among the most distinguished Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists in the world. A technology trailblazer - he is popularly known as ‘Father of the Pentium chip'
.See thats your Father of intel

No need to prove anything to the like of such Chinese ...this is a textbook case of Insecurity in ones own understanding/stereotypes..hence hes' defending it the only way he knows how ....with BS with no basis in Reality . Time is the best Explanatory medium.

India is slowly moving in a trajectory that conflicts with China's ....with all conflicting thing 1st comes denial ;Then Acceptance and then Respect ..this is the nature of all of Society and Human beings . IMHO the one that remains the longer in denial the longer he keeps hurting himself.
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On a personal note ...whooot !!!!!
I would finally like to see investments form Companies like Intel, Amd and Nvidia as well as Indigenous companies tht sprout out of this Possibility.
I personally asked for this 5 years ago but as it goes "Daer Aye durust Aye" .
 
Where's my $10 laptop? Didn't the Indian government promise a $10 laptop a while back? When would it be delivered?
 

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