The Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw addressed the press about the Union Cabinet’s approval of a India’s 6th semiconductor manufacturing unit in Jewar, Uttar Pradesh. It will be a joint venture between HCL and Foxconn and will be set up near the Jewar airport. Production will start in 2027.
HCL has a long history of developing and manufacturing hardware, and Foxconn is a global leader in electronics manufacturing. Together, they will set up a plant near Jewar airport in the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority, or YEIDA.
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The chip unit will attract an investment worth Rs 3,700 crore. Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters after the Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that work on the other five units is currently underway and expected to be inaugurated later this year.
The minister said the Jewar unit will have a 20,000-wafer-per-month capacity and produce 36 million (3.6 crore) chips per month. The chips produced at the Jewar plant will be used in mobile phones, laptops, automobiles, and PCs, among other things. The semiconductor industry in India is still in a nascent stage, with various local and multinational companies intending to tap its vast potential. Chip shortages during COVID-19 realised the importance of indigenous manufacturing to fill the deficiency, for national security, and to galvanise indigenous innovation.
The other five semiconductors are under construction in Gujarat and Assam. Earlier in the day, Vaishnaw, in his latest blog for the Press Information Bureau (PIB), praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership in Operation Sindoor’s success and highlighted that India has decided to rewrite the rulebook on “counter-terrorism.” Ashwini Vaishnaw asserted that Operation Sindoor is the “clearest articulation” of a zero tolerance policy for safeguarding national security.
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