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Nine companies including Tata and Texas Instruments are competing for a USD 1 billion contract to modernise a 180nm chip manufacturing plant in India.

The state-owned Semiconductor Laboratory in Mohali is the only chip manufacturing unit in India that produces semiconductors for strategic and defence purposes, including for space exploration such as the Chandrayaan mission. However, the facility that was founded in 1976, has lagged behind private companies in terms of production as well as technology over the years.

Semiconductor Laboratory Mohali Revamp: The state-owned Semiconductor Laboratory in Mohali is the only chip manufacturing unit in India that produces semiconductors for strategic and defence purposes, including for space exploration such as the Chandrayaan mission. However, the facility that was founded in 1976, has lagged behind private companies in terms of production as well as technology over the years.

Chips from SCL, which is the only unit in the country to manufacture chips, have gone into previous space missions, however, the nodes are very old and need to be updated with the latest in modern technology.

Policymakers in India have understood that the semiconductor industry is a core one. They identified opportunities from the global semiconductor shortage, which disrupted supply chains across industries globally and took advantage of it