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India Semiconductor Timeline 2026-2030: Fabs, OSAT & Tata

In 2026 India moved from promising chips to producing them. Micron (28 February 2026), Kaynes Semicon (31 March 2026) and CG Semi (4 July 2026) all began assem…

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PROGRAMME START

India Semiconductor Mission launched

The government launched the India Semiconductor Mission with a 76,000 crore rupee outlay, offering fiscal support for fabs, compound-semiconductor and packaging units an…

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FIRST WAVE

India moves from policy to construction

In February and September 2024 the Cabinet approved the first big wave: the Tata-PSMC Dholera fab, the Tata assembly-and-test plant in Assam, the CG Power OSAT and, in S…

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UP JOINS THE MAP

HCL-Foxconn approved for Uttar Pradesh

In May 2025 the Cabinet approved the HCL-Foxconn joint venture near Jewar at about 3,706 crore rupees. It is an assembly and test plant focused on display driver chips f…

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FIRST TO PRODUCE

Micron opens the Sanand assembly-and-test facility

On 28 February 2026 Micron inaugurated India's first semiconductor assembly and test facility. It converts DRAM and NAND wafers fabricated elsewhere in Micron's global n…

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SECOND PLANT

Kaynes Semicon starts production

On 31 March 2026 the Kaynes Semicon OSAT plant at Sanand was inaugurated and began production, about 14 months after groundbreaking. Approved value is around 3,307 crore…

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FAB SITE

Dholera fab gets its SEZ notification

On 9 April 2026 the Centre notified a 66-hectare Special Economic Zone in the Dholera Special Investment Region, with Tata Semiconductor as developer and about 21,000 jo…

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THIRD PLANT

CG Semi enters commercial production

On 4 July 2026 the CG Semi OSAT facility began commercial production at its G1 line. The joint venture pairs CG Power of the Murugappa Group with Renesas Electronics of…

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PHASE 2

Cabinet approves Semicon 2.0

On 15 July 2026 the government approved the second phase of the India Semiconductor Mission with a 1,27,500 crore rupee outlay. Its pillars span chip design and IP, equi…

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AUGUST 2026

Where India's chip build-out stands

About a dozen manufacturing units are approved across six states, worth a cumulative 1.64 lakh crore rupees. Three are in commercial production, all backend plants. One…

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THE WAFER-FAB TEST

Can Dholera reach qualified production?

The next phase is Tata Dholera and the other fab projects moving from construction to qualified production. Tata and government messaging points to first or trial wafers…

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