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Tata Electronics and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation to build India’s first semiconductor fab

desk 26 September 2024

Tata Electronics on Thursday said it has completed the Definitive Agreement with Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) wherein the Taiwanese major will provide design and construction support to build India’s first AI-enabled greenfield fab in Gujarat.

In addition, PSMC will license a broad portfolio of technologies and provide engineering support to successfully transfer licensed technologies to the Gujarat fab which will have a manufacturing capacity of up to 50,000 wafers per month and will include next-generation factory automation capabilities deploying data analytics and machine learning to achieve efficiency.

The company said the new semiconductor fab will manufacture chips for applications such as power management IC, display drivers, microcontrollers (MCU) and high-performance computing logic, addressing the growing demand in markets such as AI, automotive, computing and data storage, and wireless communication.

“This pioneering agreement between Tata Electronics and PSMC will bring to India a portfolio of cutting-edge semiconductor technologies, advanced skill set and talent, and a network of semiconductor manufacturing suppliers and ecosystem partners, setting the foundation for an indigenous semiconductor ecosystem in India,” the company said in a statement.

Further, it called this a ‘seminal moment’ in positioning India as a trusted partner in the global semiconductor supply chain and accelerating the country’s journey towards being a global semiconductor manufacturing hub.