17 months since the government announced its semiconductor manufacturing scheme with a financial outlay of Rs 76,000 to make India a chip manufacturing nation, yet none of the big names such as Intel, TSMC, Samsung, Global Foundries, Micron has given clear indications to setting up fabs or ecosystem in the country.

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Semiconductor manufacturing companies in the US and Europe have backed India s approach to creating a wellrounded and complete semiconductor ecosystem, the Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said.

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It will be almost three times its size at $22.7 billion in 2019. Two thirds of the total market will be accounted for in the telecom stack and industrial applications.

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India now plans to allow companies to apply again and is set to accept applications until its budgeted $10 billion in incentives is exhausted, the people said. That means the Vedanta and Tower groups might not be the only ones racing to win federal support for chip plants. India’s salt-to-software Tata conglomerate has publicly voiced its ambitions to get into chipmaking.

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The company s ability to produce large volumes of sapphire wafers is critical in supporting industries that manufacture LEDs for consumer electronics and general lighting companies.

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India’s semiconductor market is projected to reach $64 billion by 2026 and Minister of State for Electronics & IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar will meet and encourage startups, next generation innovators, chip designers and business leaders to invest in the semiconductor sector at an event as part of a series at IIT Delhi on May 12.

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The two groups selected specific areas of joint projects for the Future Partnership funds, focusing on youth exchanges and industrial cooperation, said Kendanren chair Masakazu Tokura and Federation of Korean Industry acting chair Kim Byong-joon Wednesday at a joint news conference in Tokyo.

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India to reopen application process for $10 billion in chip incentives India plans to reopen the application process for $10bn in incentives and assistance for prospective chipmakers. India launched a call for submissions last year, but it only attracted three applicants, none of which have made significant progress so far.

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Union Minister of Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, who is in the US, informed that the Indian Semiconductor Mission signed an MoU with Purdue University for capacity building, research and development, and industry participation.

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According to a report by Counterpoint Research and the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA), the manufacturing of semiconductor chips in India will be driven by domestic and export markets with significant demand from the consumer electronics, telecom, IT hardware, and industrial sectors.

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India is set to revive its effort to lure prospective chipmakers into the country as projects already disclosed, including billionaire Anil Agarwal’s $19 billion plan, are taking time to get off the ground.

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According to the information shared by Cisco, the company s manufacturing facility will build Cisco s bestinclass technology, designed to provide flexible, costeffective delivery of nextgeneration services and applications and support complex cloud computing environments.

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Not many adorning the hallowed precincts of the global semiconductor industry would know that three years before global chip leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) set up shop, India had a desi fabrication facility in 1984 Nearly four decades have gone by, and the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) still exists in Mohali in India s northern state of Punjab.

Publication: The Economic Times

It has also partnered with the Vedanta group to manufacture semiconductor fabs. However, one development that is particularly significant in the Indian context is its founder Terry Gou’s second attempt to become Taiwan’s president.

Publication: The Hindu Business Line

Minister Vaishnaw is on a three day visit to USA, where he met Google CEO Sundar Pichai and is expected to meet leaders of chip companies including Intel, Micron, Global Foundries, among others to woo them to invest in India.

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On Wednesday, Vaishnaw met with Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai at the Google headquarters and held discussions on Make in India and the India stack. He also visited the Applied Materials semiconductor plant, and is slated to meet top bosses of HP, Intel, Western Digital, Micron, and AMD, among others, as he seeks to invite companies to invest and set up manufacturing in India.

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A bulk of the company’s business comes from making silicon wafers for chip designers such as Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm Inc, which do not have their own fabrication plants, called fabs.

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India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) and Purdue University, US on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), for cooperation in capacity building, R&D, and industry participation. Minister of Telecommunications and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw, who is on a visit to Silicon Valley, said the semiconductor industry will double from $600 billion to more than $1 trillion in the next few years.

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India is set to revive its effort to lure prospective chipmakers into the country as projects already disclosed, including billionaire Anil Agarwal’s $19 billion plan, are taking time to get off the ground.

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