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L&T Semiconductor to Bring Chip Assembly and Test Home as India's OSAT Turns Cost-Competitive

Aug 4, 2026

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L&T Semiconductor to Bring Chip Assembly and Test Home as India's OSAT Turns Cost-Competitive

L&T Semiconductor Technologies is shifting its OSAT (chip assembly and test) operations to India, with CEO Sandeep Kumar citing globally cost-competitive domestic players. The fabless firm is working with Tata Electronics, though it still relies on overseas fabs and covers only about 50 of 500 package types domestically.

L&T SemiconductorLarsen & Toubro

Manik Gupta

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PM Modi lays foundation for ASIP's chip plant, Andhra Pradesh's first ISM-approved semiconductor unit

Aug 3, 2026

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PM Modi lays foundation for ASIP's chip plant, Andhra Pradesh's first ISM-approved semiconductor unit

PM Modi laid the foundation stone on 1 August 2026 for ASIP Technologies' semiconductor assembly-and-test plant near Visakhapatnam — Andhra Pradesh's first ISM-approved chip unit, built with Korea's APACT to package about 96 million chips a year.

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Marvell to Invest $250 Million in India, Doubling Down on AI Chip Design in Bengaluru and Hyderabad

Aug 2, 2026

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Marvell to Invest $250 Million in India, Doubling Down on AI Chip Design in Bengaluru and Hyderabad

Marvell Technology will invest $250 million in India over three years and roughly double its local headcount, expanding AI chip-design work at a new wing in Bengaluru and a growing Hyderabad site — a boost for the design end of India's semiconductor ecosystem.

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Manik Gupta

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"Made in Bharat" Chips for Rockets: Vaishnaw Signals India''s Push for Indigenous Space-Grade Semiconductors

Jul 29, 2026

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"Made in Bharat" Chips for Rockets: Vaishnaw Signals India''s Push for Indigenous Space-Grade Semiconductors

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has signalled that indigenously developed "Made in Bharat" semiconductors will soon go into Indian space launch vehicles, following Skyroot''s Vikram-1 orbital success. The intent leans on India''s VEGA/DIR-V processors, its plan for space-grade chips, and the newly expanded Semicon 2.0 programme.

Ashwini VaishnawSkyroot Aerospace

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India's IndieSemiC Teams Up With Semtech on a RISC-V Chip for the Internet of Things

Jul 28, 2026

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India's IndieSemiC Teams Up With Semtech on a RISC-V Chip for the Internet of Things

Gujarat-based fabless startup IndieSemiC has partnered with US chipmaker Semtech to build a RISC-V-based system-in-package that combines computing with long-range wireless for IoT devices — the latest sign India's semiconductor effort is expanding into chip design.

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Centre Clears Two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters in Tamil Nadu Worth 1,012 Crore

Jul 28, 2026

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Centre Clears Two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters in Tamil Nadu Worth 1,012 Crore

The Centre has sanctioned two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters in Tamil Nadu — at Manallur and Pillapaikkam — worth 1,012 crore rupees, announced by Ashwini Vaishnaw in the Lok Sabha on 22 July 2026, adding to India's push to localise electronics production.

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Paras Defence arm to build ₹6,200 crore advanced chip-packaging plant in Madhya Pradesh

Jul 25, 2026

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Paras Defence arm to build ₹6,200 crore advanced chip-packaging plant in Madhya Pradesh

Paras Defence''s subsidiary Paras Semiconductors has signed a ₹6,200 crore MoU with Madhya Pradesh to build a greenfield advanced OSAT chip-packaging plant near Ujjain-Indore, days after the Cabinet cleared India Semiconductor Mission 2.0.

Paras DefenceParas Semiconductors

Manik Gupta

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C-DAC Puts Its Homegrown AI Inference Chip Into Trial Production, With HCL Infosystems to Validate It

Jul 22, 2026

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C-DAC Puts Its Homegrown AI Inference Chip Into Trial Production, With HCL Infosystems to Validate It

C-DAC has moved its indigenous AI inference chip into trial production and picked HCL Infosystems, chosen through a GeM tender, to validate the design — an early but concrete step in India's push for a home-grown answer to Nvidia-class accelerators under Semicon 2.0.

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India Will Take Equity in Chip Startups and Match Their VCs, Round for Round, Under Semicon 2.0

Jul 19, 2026

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India Will Take Equity in Chip Startups and Match Their VCs, Round for Round, Under Semicon 2.0

The India Semiconductor Mission will fund chip startups as an equity co-investor under Semicon 2.0 — taking minority stakes, releasing capital against milestones, and matching venture funding from seed to Series C — a sharp break from its old one-time grant model aimed at the gap that stranded DLI-scheme designs.

India Semiconductor MissionSemicon 2.0

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The Cabinet Clears Semicon 2.0: ₹1.27 Lakh Crore to Build the Rest of India's Chip Supply Chain

Jul 17, 2026

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The Cabinet Clears Semicon 2.0: ₹1.27 Lakh Crore to Build the Rest of India's Chip Supply Chain

The Union Cabinet approved the ₹1.27 lakh crore second phase of the India Semiconductor Mission on 15 July 2026, widening incentives for the first time to cover chip-making materials, gases and equipment — the supply-chain layer India still lacks.

India Semiconductor MissionSemicon 2.0

Manik Gupta

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L&T's Chip Arm Signs a Taiwan Pact to Build India's Power Semiconductors

Jul 12, 2026

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L&T's Chip Arm Signs a Taiwan Pact to Build India's Power Semiconductors

L&T Semiconductor Technologies has signed an MoU with Taiwan's Azuremoto Technologies to jointly develop silicon-carbide and power-semiconductor products for AI data centres, solar inverters and energy meters — an effort to give India a foothold in power chips it currently imports almost entirely.

L&T Semiconductor TechnologiesAzuremoto Technologies

Manik Gupta

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Jul 11, 2026

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IIT Hyderabad and Silicon Labs Team Up to Put Indian Silicon Inside Indian Medical Devices

IIT Hyderabad's Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship has signed an MoU with US chipmaker Silicon Labs to give Indian medical-device startups access to low-power semiconductors and edge-AI technology — a bid to build made-in-India smart medical devices down to the silicon.

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Gujarat and IIT Gandhinagar Commit Rs 190 Crore to SAMARTH, a Factory for Chip Talent

Jul 10, 2026

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Gujarat and IIT Gandhinagar Commit Rs 190 Crore to SAMARTH, a Factory for Chip Talent

Gujarat, MeitY and IIT Gandhinagar have committed Rs 190 crore to SAMARTH, a semiconductor research-and-training hub aimed at making students and technicians "fab-ready." It targets training more than 10,000 people over five years, addressing the workforce gap behind India's chip-manufacturing push.

SAMARTHIIT Gandhinagar

Manik Gupta

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PM Modi Inaugurates CG Semi's Sanand Plant, India's First Big Chip-Packaging Line to Go Commercial

Jul 5, 2026

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PM Modi Inaugurates CG Semi's Sanand Plant, India's First Big Chip-Packaging Line to Go Commercial

PM Modi inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi's Rs 7,600-crore G1 OSAT plant in Sanand on 4 July 2026, making it one of India's first big chip assembly-and-test lines to go commercial. The CG Power–Renesas–Stars Microelectronics venture cements Sanand as India's first chip-packaging cluster.

CG SemiCG Power

Manik Gupta

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Finance Ministry Panel Clears a Rs 1.25 Lakh Crore Outlay for Semiconductor Mission 2.0

Jul 3, 2026

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Finance Ministry Panel Clears a Rs 1.25 Lakh Crore Outlay for Semiconductor Mission 2.0

The Expenditure Finance Committee has cleared a Rs 1.25 lakh crore outlay for India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 — well above ISM 1.0's Rs 76,000 crore — widening the bet from fabs to equipment, materials, chemicals, MSMEs and chip design. It now awaits Cabinet approval.

India Semiconductor MissionSemiconductor Mission 2.0

Manik Gupta

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Mindgrove's RISC-V Secure SoC and the Pinetics Deal That Embeds It

May 15, 2026

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Mindgrove's RISC-V Secure SoC and the Pinetics Deal That Embeds It

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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Manik Gupta

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iElectron and ALTEN: Europe Starts Sourcing Indian Hardware IP, Not Just Code

Jun 16, 2026

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iElectron and ALTEN: Europe Starts Sourcing Indian Hardware IP, Not Just Code

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.

iElectronEmbedded Systems

Manik Gupta

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Dholera: Inside India's First Commercial Wafer Fab

May 11, 2026

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Dholera: Inside India's First Commercial Wafer Fab

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.

Tata ElectronicsPSMC

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ISM 2.0's ₹40,000 Crore Pivot to Equipment, Materials and IP

May 23, 2026

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ISM 2.0's ₹40,000 Crore Pivot to Equipment, Materials and IP

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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India's Packaging Cluster Goes Live: Micron, Kaynes, CG Power and Tata's Assam Giant

Jun 9, 2026

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India's Packaging Cluster Goes Live: Micron, Kaynes, CG Power and Tata's Assam Giant

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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HCL-Foxconn Breaks Ground on a Display-Driver Fab at Jewar

Jun 16, 2026

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HCL-Foxconn Breaks Ground on a Display-Driver Fab at Jewar

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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Manik Gupta

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India's Fabless Moment: 12nm Silicon, RISC-V Franchises and the DLI Scorecard

Jul 12, 2026

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India's Fabless Moment: 12nm Silicon, RISC-V Franchises and the DLI Scorecard

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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Manik Gupta

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India Bets on Compound Semiconductors: SiCSem's SiC Fab and Polymatech's GaN Plant

Jun 18, 2026

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India Bets on Compound Semiconductors: SiCSem's SiC Fab and Polymatech's GaN Plant

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.

Compound SemiconductorsSilicon Carbide

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