Intel taking a look at semiconductor plant in India

Semiconductor manufacturing big Intel has expressed curiosity in organising a brand new plant in India and is prone to apply for incentives underneath the brand new scheme to advertise manufacturing for growth of sustainable semiconductor and show ecosystem, sources in know of the event mentioned. The new unit, sources mentioned, may very well be arrange for growth and fabrication of take a look at chips on Intel 18A, which is among the many latest applied sciences developed by the corporate.
Intel didn’t reply to queries asking its affirmation on whether or not it had certainly utilized for organising a brand new plant and whether or not the brand new plant would contain work on 18A chipsets. Earlier within the day, following a tweet by Randhir Thakur, a senior vice-president and president of Intel Foundry Services, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Ashwini Vaishnaw welcomed the corporate to India by tweeting “Intel- welcome to India”.
Vaishnaw’s reply got here to a tweet by Thakur wherein the latter congratulated MeitY, Vaishnaw and Minister of State for MeitY Rajeev Chandrasekhar for the brand new scheme which envisages to arrange new models for home manufacturing of excessive finish semiconductor fab and fabless chips, amongst different newer {hardware}.
“Congrats to @GoI_MeitY @AshwiniVaishnaw @Rajeev_GoI for Semiconductor design & manufacturing incentives for India as hub for electronics & semiconductors. Glad to see a plan laid out for all aspects of the supply chain: talent, design, manufacturing, test, packaging & logistics,” Thakur had tweeted.
In an interview to The Indian Express earlier this month, Vaishnaw had mentioned that new scheme for home manufacturing of semiconductor wafer fabrication amenities was considerably totally different from the older schemes because the nation had now the capability to eat the brand new chips being manufactured.