Blitz Bureau
India’s long-held ambition to make its own semiconductors is turning tangible. Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week inaugurated the CG Semi assembly and test facility at Sanand in Gujarat, adding to a cluster of plants that are moving the country’s chip programme from policy papers to working production lines.
The Sanand plant joins Micron’s assembly-and-test unit in the same industrial belt and Tata Electronics’ packaging facility at Jagiroad in Assam, both already operational, in the outsourced-assembly-and-test segment that packages and tests finished chips. Together with the Tata–PSMC wafer fabrication plant taking shape at Dholera — a 300mm line targeting first silicon by December 2026 — they anchor a portfolio of projects that has drawn more than $21 billion in approved investment under the India Semiconductor Mission.
A chip ecosystem is built brick by brick — packaging first, fabrication next — and India has now laid several of those bricks on the ground.
At a Glance
- New: CG Semi OSAT plant inaugurated at Sanand, Gujarat
- Operational: Micron (Sanand) & Tata Electronics (Jagiroad, Assam)
- Fab: Tata–PSMC, Dholera — first silicon targeted Dec 2026
- Backing: $21 bn+ approved under the India Semiconductor Mission
The strategic logic is plain: semiconductors sit inside everything from phones and cars to power grids and defence systems, and a domestic base reduces reliance on a handful of overseas suppliers. Packaging and testing come first because they are less capital-intensive and quicker to scale; fabrication, the most complex step, follows as skills, water, ultra-clean power and supplier networks mature around the new clusters.
The constructive task now is to convert ribbon-cuttings into steady, high-yield output — training thousands of technicians, deepening the local supplier chain and holding to timelines at Dholera. Get those fundamentals right, and a mission that began as an aspiration becomes a durable industry that employs, exports and secures the technologies India’s growth increasingly runs on.
