Chip manufacturing, hardware innovations, and semiconductor industry updates
Chennai's Mindgrove has put a domestically architected 28 nm RISC-V Secure SoC into a real production design win with Pune ODM Pinetics, claiming 30% lower device cost and a sovereign path to Tata's Dholera fab.
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Under Bharat Innovates 2026, embedded-systems firm iElectron signed an MoU with France's ALTEN to design ECUs and fault-tolerant avionic buses, marking Europe sourcing core hardware IP from India rather than IT services.
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The HCL-Foxconn joint venture broke ground at Jewar on a ₹3,706 crore display-driver IC fab, North India's first major semiconductor unit, targeting 20,000 wafers a month and commercial production in 2027.
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Before a single domestic wafer is fabricated, four ATMP projects have moved India to shipping product, with Kaynes exporting the first indigenously advanced-packaged chips and Tata's ₹27,000 crore Assam plant set to be the country's largest.
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India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 redirects ₹40,000 crore from fabs toward equipment, materials and full-stack IP, the hardest, highest-moat layer of the chip economy, anchored by commitments from Lam Research and Applied Materials.
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Tata Electronics and Taiwan's PSMC are building India's first greenfield 300mm fab at Dholera, a ₹91,000 crore bet on mature-node silicon de-risked by a 50% ISM subsidy and aimed at ending total wafer-import dependence.
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SiCSem's silicon carbide fab in Odisha and Polymatech's gallium nitride plant in Chhattisgarh mark India's entry into wide-bandgap power electronics, a deliberate leapfrog into EVs, fast chargers and 5G/6G rather than the advanced-logic race.
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Netrasemi's 12nm Edge-AI SoC and Mindgrove's RISC-V chips are taking India's fabless ambition from policy to silicon, with the DLI scheme's 16 tape-outs showing design subsidies converting into real product and private capital.
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