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A fab debate on display: India's dilemma over display tech self-reliance

India debates which display fab to set up, weighing LCD, OLED, and emerging micro-OLED technologies for self-reliance in the sector

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The display unit makes up 15 per cent of the cost of a mobile phone, although this is much higher for LCD and OLED TVs. This means localisation is key to making India a hub for their fabrication.

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi

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The next time you upgrade your mobile phone or television set, you’d do well to remember that its display unit wouldn’t have been fabricated in India. 
This matters because it is a huge missing piece in the government’s ₹75,000 crore semiconductor incentive scheme. While the scheme has cleared complex projects straddling silicon and compound fabrication plants for wafers, as well as units that package, test and turn the wafers into chips, there is one key area it has failed to deliver on — a promise to set up two display fabrication units (where none exists today). 
To be fair, there