The Tata group’s semiconductor plant in Assam will produce 48.3 million chips per day using indigenously developed technologies, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Tata Sons Limited Chairman N Chandrasekaran attended the Bhumi Pujan of the Rs 27,000 crore semiconductor assembly and testing facility at Jagiroad in Morigaon district on Saturday.
The project was approved by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 29.
“The construction of the plant has been started within just five months of the approval of the project. It will manufacture around 48.3 million chips (4.8 crores) per day. The special thing about this plant is that all the three major technologies that will be used in this plant have been developed in India,” Vaishnaw said.
The minister said that the chips made at the Tata plant will be used in vehicles, including electric vehicles, and virtually every big company will use their chips.
Vaishnaw said that for communication and network infrastructure, every big company making 5G, routers, etc. will use these chips.
“Semiconductors are a fundamental industry. Every time a semiconductor unit comes, many more downstream jobs will be created and there will be many more upstream jobs because the ecosystem is so complex that once a parent unit comes, many many units will come,” Vaishnaw said.
Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said at the plant’s Bhumi Pujan ceremony that the chip assembly plant in Assam will create 27,000 jobs, of which 15,000 will be direct and 12,000 will be indirect.
The plant is expected to become operational in 2025. The minister further said that an important part of the India Semiconductor Mission is to train 85,000 talent and nine institutes in the Northeast have started training talent for the semiconductor industry.
Besides the semiconductor chip assembly and testing plant in Assam, Tata Electronics is also setting up India’s first wafer fabrication plant at Dholera in the state of Gujarat. The plant will have a production capacity of 50,000 wafers per month and will require an investment of Rs 91,000 crore. The first chip from Tata’s Dholera plant is expected to hit the market in December 2026.
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