Chip manufacturing, hardware innovations, and semiconductor industry updates
SEMICON India 2026, the fifth edition of the country's flagship chip-industry event, opens in New Delhi on September 17 with Prime Minister Modi inaugurating and more than 600 exhibitors taking part.
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Continental Device India Ltd (CDIL), one of India's oldest chipmakers, confirmed commercial-scale semiconductor production and a new packaging partnership with Japan's Shindengen Electric at SEMICON India 2026.
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The company says seed funding will support product development, manufacturing and validation. Its charger claims need product-level evidence, beyond the choice of semiconductor material.
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Bengaluru's Makr Microsystems has raised ₹10.2 crore in a seed round led by Bluehill.VC to build nanoscale metrology tools that let chipmakers find hidden defects beneath a chip's surface without damaging it.
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Gurugram's Zenergize Technologies has raised a Pre-Series A round to scale its silicon-carbide EV chargers and solar inverters against an order book already worth ₹150 crore.
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PM Modi will inaugurate Semicon India 2026 on September 17 at Delhi's Yashobhoomi, with 500+ exhibitors and global majors like ASML and Applied Materials attending as three ISM-backed plants begin commercial chip production.
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South Korean specialty foundry DB HiTek will exhibit in India for the first time at electronica India 2026 this September, targeting the country's fast-growing fabless chip design ecosystem.
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MeitY says Chennai fabless startup Aheesa Digital Innovations achieved first-pass silicon success on 15 August 2026 with 'Vihaan', a DLI-backed broadband networking SoC built on RISC-V and C-DAC's indigenous 64-bit VEGA core, with production tape-out targeted for 2027.
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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.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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