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These chips are used in phones, laptops, vehicles and many gadgets. Currently, India is dependent on abroad for these chips.
India’s first plant to make semiconductor chip has started in Dholera, Gujarat. The plant has been started by Tata Electronics in association with Taiwan’s Power-Chip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC).
These chips are used in phones, laptops, vehicles and many gadgets. Currently, India is dependent on abroad for these chips. When its supply stops, production of many electronic gadgets decreases in the country. With this plant, India will meet its needs and reduce foreign dependence. Chip production is expected to start from December 2026.
Question 1: What is a semiconductor chip?
Consider the semiconductor the brain of electronic gadgets. Computers, laptops, cars, washing machines, ATMs, from the machine of hospitals to the smartphone in hand work on the semiconductor chip. This chip helps to operate these gadgets like a brain. Without them, every electronic item is incomplete. Semiconductor chips are made of silicon and the circuit is used to control electricity.
This chip helps to automatically operate electronic items. For example, the automatic machine is closed after the fabric is completely washed away in a smart washing machine. Similarly, when you forget to put a seat belt in the car, the car gives you alert. This happens only with the help of semiconductor.
Question 2: What is the benefit of India from the semiconductor plant?
- Self -reliance: India is dependent on abroad for semiconductor chips, causing risk in the supply chain. For example, during the covid, there was a shortage of chip due to lockdown. The plant will meet India’s needs and reduce foreign dependence.
- Make in India Boost: This project will boost ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’. India will no longer be a user of chips, but also a manufacturer.
- Will get new jobs: This plant will create 20,000+ direct and indirect job opportunities. There will be a lot of opportunities for engineers, technicians and support staff.
- Global Tech Hub: These plants will bring India into the league of countries like Taiwan, South Korea, which are the increased players in the field of global chip manufacturing.
- Cheap gadgets: Local production can make chips cheap, which can also afford phones, laptops and cars.
Question 3: What products will be made in the plant?
The plant will have 14Nm, 28Nm, 40Nm, 55Nm, and 65NM semiconductor chips. These chips will be used in different things.
- Consumer Electronics: Smartphone, laptop, smart TV.
- Automotive: Electric cars and Adas (Advance Driver Assistance System).
- Industrial: Medical devices, IOT products and defense equipment.
Question 4: What is Tata’s planning?
Tata has left no stone unturned to make this project successful …
- Training: More than 200 employees have been sent to PSMC for high-level training in Taiwan, so that they can learn world-class chip manufacturing.
- Infrastructure: The Gujarat government has set up 1,500 residential units, schools, hospitals, disliencies and a ‘Global Tent City’ for Tata employees and suppliers in Dholera.
- Second plant in Assam: Tata is also building an OSAT (outsorated semiconductor assembly & test) plant in Jagirod, Assam, which will testing and packaging chips. It can begin by mid-2025. There will be 27,000 jobs create here.
The world’s 60% semiconductor chip makes Taiwan
According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SEMI), the Taiwan Global Chip Fabrication Capacity (physically semiconductor’s ability to make semiconductor) is 60% stake. The TSMC manufactures about half of the world’s semiconductor alone.
