India must ensure basic infra to woo chip makers: NXP
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“Establishment of Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication (fab) units in India has long been challenging, even though India has done well in terms of chip design and manufacturing of electronics. This is due to several factors, but not just the country’s shortage of resources,” Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors India head Sanjay Gupta said.
Sanjay Gupta, India head, NXP Semiconductors
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors India head Sanjay Gupta said India needs to ensure availability of basic infrastructure such as lots of pure water and undisturbed electricity supplies for semiconductor manufacturing, which involves billions of dollars in investments.
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#FabInIndia: Why The Government Must Act NowÂ
by Arun Mampazhy - Dec 18, 2020 06:27 AM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Snapshot
If expression of interest scheme-letter of intent is the governmentâs route for #FabInIndia, it must act fast and firm.
On 9 October 2013, the then UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government through its Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) under Ministry of Communications and Information Technology issued this invitation of expression of interest (EoI) for setting up semiconductor wafer fabrication (Fab) facility in India.
The initial deadline was within four weeks, which was later extended to 25 November 2013 â in short, about 48 days were given. The parameters looked as follows: