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Made in India (from 8) semiconductor fabs, investors have begun
planning chip assembly, perhaps compet-
pany said it was investing $1 billion in its ing with Tata.
150,000 square foot facility. Its product
line appears to be very basic. NAND Flash packaging
These include Sahasra Semiconductor, in-
Budding, but “wobbly” infrastructure corporated in July 2020, which it claims is
It may be decades, if ever, before India India’s “first and only private company to
boasts a semiconductor manufacturing start NAND FLASH IC packaging and test-
industry like Silicon Valley, Silicon Gulch or ing operations.”
any region where advanced fabs are sited
today. Its 2022 publicity says it will be located
in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan and will begin trials
As one critic told Reuters when asked and sample production by October 2022.
about the lack of interest in setting up a The company’s initial focus will be chip-
wafer fab, “Firms are deterred by India’s on-board, Micro SD cards moving on to
wobbly infrastructure, unstable power su- eMMCs and BGA parts.
ply, bureaucracy and poor planning.”
India may follow, whether it wishes to or
Ultimately, it may become a chip assembly not, the same route as The Philippines,
mecca for that region of the world. Since which became a major assembly and
the government renewed its pursuit of next page

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