Semiconductor Industry

Prioritising talent development under the Government of India's Semiconductor Mission, Union Minister for Railways and Electronics & IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, stated that India has achieved its 10-year target of training 85,000 engineers in semiconductor design in just 4 years.The Minister on Monday informed that world-class Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens, have been made available in 315 universities across the country, and with the help of these tools, students are designing actual semiconductor chips, according to a release.These chips are being fabricated and tested at the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, giving students hands-on experience across the entire process from design to manufacturing and validation, he said.Vaishnaw further stated that students from universities across the nation, from Assam to Gujarat and from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, are actively engaging in semiconductor design. This marks a significant milestone ...

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said the Centre's Semicon Mission 2.0 will focus on bolstering deep tech startups, prioritising the creation of a design ecosystem and getting equipment manufacturing and design facilities in the country. Addressing the inaugural session of the Gujarat Semiconnect Conference 2026 here, the Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology said that a talent gap of 20 lakh in the semiconductor sector will create huge opportunities for students. "Semicon 2.0 will be totally the reverse of Semicon 1.0, which focused on getting manufacturing facilities in India. We got that. We have 10 plants, with the first starting commercial production yesterday. Very soon, the second plant will start commercial production," he said. Vaishnaw said that the top priority for Semicon 2.0 - the second phase of India's Semiconductor Mission - will be to create a "design ecosystem", so that deep tech startups get the opportunity to develop the next ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated Micron Technology's semiconductor plant at Sanand in Gujarat, and said that after being known for its strength in software the country is "firmly establishing its identity" in the hardware sector too. The inauguration of the US-based company's ATMP (Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging) plant -- the first such facility in the country --reflects a deep partnership between India and the United States, he said. The message has reached the world loud and clear: India is capable, India is competitive and India is committed, Modi said. "India, long known for its software strength, is now firmly establishing its identity in the hardware sector as well," said the prime minister. "If oil was the regulator of the last century, microchips will be the regulator of this century," he said, adding that India is rapidly becoming an "integral part of the global semiconductor value chain". The plant will manufacture SSD (Solid State Drive) ..

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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 ..

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Taiwan-based TSMC, the world's largest computer chip maker, plans to increase its capital spending by about 40% this year after it reported a 35% jump in its net profit for the latest quarter thanks to the boom in artificial intelligence, the company said Thursday. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a major supplier to companies including Nvidia and Apple, reported a net profit of 506 billion new Taiwan dollars ($16 billion) for the October-December quarter, a 35% surge from a year earlier, better than analysts' estimates. TSMC said Thursday that its revenue in the last quarter increased 21% from a year earlier to more than 1.046 trillion new Taiwan dollars ($33 billion). TSMC said it plans to boost its capital expenditure budget to $52 billion-$56 billion for 2026, up from about $40 billion last year. The company's shares have climbed more than 8% since the beginning of the year, reflecting its strong position in the AI-driven market. Other tech giants including Microsoft,

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said India's entry into the semiconductor industry was "strong" though a bit late, but the country would soon be self-reliant in the sector and even start exporting. Speaking at the Abhyudaya Madhya Pradesh Growth Summit here, he praised the BJP government in the state for the registration of 4.57 lakh MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) in just one year. Thanks to Madhya Pradesh's geographical location and its fertile land, one can earn crores of rupees by investing even a small amount, he said. "We have made a strong entry into the semiconductor industry, although a bit late. Very soon we will not only become self-reliant in the semiconductor sector, but also start exporting," he said. Shah inaugurated or performed groundbreaking ceremony for industrial projects worth Rs 2 lakh crore on this occasion to mark the 101st birth anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee. "Atal ji was a great orator, sensitive poet, a le

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