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India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 will prioritise indigenous chip design, their productisation, attracting ecosystem partners and development of talents, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday. The minister said the government will continue to work on setting up semiconductor manufacturing plants and target to produce chips as small as 2 nanometer node size. "In Semicon 2.0, the topmost priority will be design companies. Design companies, design startups who can design a product, take it to the market, become the next Qualcomm from India, hopefully get that huge innovation, that entire energy which is there in our startups into deep tech. That will be a focus area," Vaishnaw said. He was speaking at a Qualcomm event here to announce 2 nanometer chip of the company which has been developed in India. The minister said the government will focus on getting the entire ecosystem in the country under ISM 2.0. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget announced that the ..
The India-US trade deal can be a major catalyst for India's electronics, semiconductor, and technology ecosystem, Ashok Chandak, President of SEMI India and IESA said on Tuesday, adding it will accelerate semiconductor design and manufacturing, bolster value addition, and expand cooperation across AI and data centres space. The comment from the industry assumes significance as the US and India have reached a trade deal following months of negotiations. Washington will bring down the reciprocal tariff on Indian goods to 18 per cent from the current 25 per cent, President Trump said in a social media post on Monday after a phone conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The prime minister said he was delighted that "Made in India products will now have a reduced tariff of 18 per cent". IESA's (India Electronics and Semiconductor Association) Chandak said, the India-US trade deal can be a major catalyst for India's electronics, semiconductor, and technology ecosystem. By improvi
Semiconductor plants being set up in Dholera will use lithographic tools of Dutch company ASML, Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said during his visit to its facility in Veldhoven on Friday. Vaishnaw visited ASML Headquarters in Veldhoven, Netherlands, today, an official statement said. "Our fab in Dholera will be using the ASML equipment. So, I have come to visit here and understand their technology," Vaishnaw said. Tata Group is setting up a chip manufacturing unit in Dholera, which entails an investment of around Rs 91,000 crore. The centre has committed 50 per cent fiscal support on a pari-passu basis, and the state government will provide 20 per cent support. The minister said that ASML is the world's leading provider of lithographic tools and enables practically every chip manufactured in the world. "India has started a new semiconductor industry, and in the entire semiconductor industry, lithography, which basically means printing the circuit on the wafer,