Semicon India 2025: GlobalFoundries to support companies under DLI scheme

At Semicon India 2025, GlobalFoundries announced it will support companies under India's DLI scheme by providing access to design kits, wafer fabrication, and engineering resources

The government on Thursday announced that GlobalFoundries, a global semiconductor company, will extend support to companies approved under the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme. The initiative is part of the company’s India Foundry Connect program, the government said, marking the end of the three-day Semicon India 2025 event.

 

Through this program, GlobalFoundries will provide approved firms with access to its process design kits (PDKs), multi-project wafer (MPW) fabrication, intellectual property (IP) resources, and engineering support. The move is expected to help Indian semiconductor companies accelerate the transition from design to manufacturing, strengthening the country’s ecosystem.

 

Amongst other announcements, the government has also invited applications to access electronic design automation (EDA) tools. "In 2025, the ChipIN Centre has powered more than 14 million hours of EDA tools usage across over 350 organisations. We are thrilled to invite applications from startups and small, micro, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) under the DLI scheme and from academic institutions under the Chips to Startup (C2S) programme," said the statement from MeitY.  

 

Once selected, startups gain centralised access to the ChipIN Centre, one of the largest facilities established at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Bangalore, which offers a range of semiconductor design workflows and solutions.

 

Notably, the ChipIN Centre is collaborating with the Odisha Semiconductor Fab and Fabless Innovation and Acceleration Programme (O-Chip) to catalyse the fabless chip design ecosystem in the State of Odisha.

 

In addition, C-DAC has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with US-based Rigetti Computing for co-development and fabrication access. It has also signed Letters of Intent for co-operation with QuantWare (Netherlands) and QuantrolOx (Finland) for superconducting chip design, fabrication, software collaboration, and access to advanced fabrication facilities.