Govt places its chips on public-private partnership for new fab in Mohali

The govt has been pushing for a local semiconductor ecosystem to reduce dependency on other countries for semiconductors

At a time when global chip giants are still scanning through India's modified government incentives programme for building a local semiconductor manufacturing fab, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has made another offer. This time, the bid is for turning an existing semiconductor laboratory into a mass production unit as a partner to the government of India.

MeitY late last week issued an expression of interest (EoI) seeking commercial and technology players with the necessary technological and operational expertise to modernise its Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali. The government has suggested three ways to do this – either transforming