India spent 20 years designing the world's chips. Now it is building them.
A new Gujarat plant and a $13 billion mission mark the shift from design room to factory floor.
For two decades India was the world's chip design room. The making happened elsewhere — Taiwan, Korea, the US. That gap is now closing.
On July 4, Prime Minister Modi opened the CG Semi assembly-and-test plant in Sanand, Gujarat, built under the India Semiconductor Mission with more than ₹7,500 crore invested. At full capacity it is designed to turn out up to 5 billion chips a year — for cars, scooters, and industrial machines.
It is not a one-off. India has cleared Semiconductor Mission 2.0, a ₹1.25 lakh crore (about $13.2 billion) program, and approved 12 projects worth a $17.3 billion pipeline — one fabrication unit, two compound-semiconductor fabs, and nine packaging plants.
The direction is clear: India is moving from designing chips to fabricating, packaging, and testing them at home. For a country that already supplies the world's chip engineers, owning the factory is the last missing piece.
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