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Construction of Tata’s Semiconductor Facility in Assam Commences


Friday, August 9, 2024

Tata Sons Ltd recently held the laying of the foundation stone for its semiconductor unit in Assam. The ceremony was held August 3, in the presence of Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma, Honorable Chief Minister of Assam, and N. Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons.

The construction of the facility is a significant step towards creating an end-to-end semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem in India.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always emphasized on Act East policy, according to Sh. Ashwini Vaishnav, Union Minister for Railways, Electronics & Information Technology and Information and Broadcasting. And a very important milestone is being achieved in Assam with the commencement of construction of this facility. This project was approved by the Union Cabinet on February 29, 2024.

The program for development of semiconductors and display manufacturing ecosystem in India was notified on December 21, 2021, with a total outlay of INR76,000 crore. In June 2023, the Union Cabinet approved the proposal of Micron for setting up a semiconductor unit in Sanand, Gujarat, the construction of which is progressing at a rapid pace.

The Union Minister mentioned that Tata’s Assam unit will be set up with an investment of INR27 thousand crores and is expected to generate 15 thousand direct and 11–13 thousand indirect jobs. While highlighting the importance of the semiconductor industry as being a foundational one, he said that employment opportunities in various upstream and downstream industries will be created.

The proposed capacity of this unit is 4.83 crore semiconductor chips per day. He also pointed out that this unit will be the site for the development of indigenous advanced semiconductor packaging technologies including wire bond, flip chip and I-SIP (integrated system in package) technologies—all of which will be developed in India. These technologies are extremely critical for key applications such as automotive (especially electric vehicles), communications, and network infrastructure, to name a few.

The Union Minister also mentioned that around 85,000 industry-ready workforce at B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD level in semiconductor chip design are being trained at 113 academic institutions across the country. Nine of these are in the North-East, including: National Institute of Technology Silchar, National Institute of Technology Mizoram, National Institute of Technology Manipur, National Institute of Technology Nagaland, National Institute of Technology Agartala, National Institute of Technology Sikkim, National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, and National Institute of Technology Meghalaya.

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