India To Soon Produce semiconductor Equipment: IT Minister By CIOTechOutlook Team

India To Soon Produce semiconductor Equipment: IT Minister

CIOTechOutlook Team | Monday, 11 March 2024, 02:45 IST

India will soon commence producing equipment for semiconductor manufacturing, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. “The entire semiconductor ecosystem of fabs, ATMP units, chemicals, gases, substrate, consumables and equipment for semiconductor manufacturing will be made in India,” he said. He was speaking at the inauguration of American chip equipment supplier Applied Materials’ India Validation Centre in Bengaluru which was set up at a cost of $20 million.

Such labs are available in the US, Singapore, China and Korea. The India Approval Center will have a labor force of 500 individuals. The organization last year declared that it will set up a designing place in Bengaluru with a complete venture of $400 million north of four years to create and popularize innovations for semiconductor producing gear. Vaishnaw said that the parts that were before imported from Japan, Korea and Taiwan, are being made by the organization here at this point.

“Today, all the four agreements made during the Prime Minister’s state visit to the US have been materialised,” Vaishnaw said.

The development of Micron's ATMP has initiated. Furthermore, LAM Exploration's proposition to convey a virtual nano manufacture climate through its Semiverse Solutions for train semiconductor engineers in India has commenced.

“The first training course in the Indian Institute of Science has started with 35 students,” the minister said.

The third agreement was in relation to a centre of Applied Materials to be set up in India, he said. “This has also fructified with a centre of the company being set up here,” he said.

A design centre of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) was also to be set up in India. “A few months back, I inaugurated the design centre of AMD in Bengaluru,” Vaishnaw said.