Semiconductor India Photovoltaics
Sunlight reflects a new direction
The Indian semiconductor policy could easily be renamed the photovoltaic
policy, given the announcements of projects actually connected to the
policy. David Ridsdale of Semiconductor India looks at the continued
growth of the photovoltaic preference in the Indian industry.
THERE was much excitement in the global control of the developing industries stays initial stages of the policy introduction, the
semiconductor industry when the Indian firmly within India. Indian government was actively pursuing
Government announced a semiconductor existing multinational semiconductor
policy at the start of 2007. Potential This changing of the mind and direction has manufacturers with all sorts of tempting
opportunists from around the globe rushed been met with differing responses with financial offers. One by one they all refused
to India in the hope of taking advantage of some observers fearing the indecision is the advances of the Indian government who
expected financial support in setting up new indicative of such problems within the found themselves spurned by the major
expensive fabs. Such companies found the government itself. Like any large players and alone with a massive policy but
Indian government a more difficult democracy, India is burdened with little understanding how they could make it
negotiator than imagined and the bureaucracy that can make decisions work.
international companies drifted off the difficult and leaves few satisfied. However
semiconductor plans. The Indian the change in the Semiconductor Policy is Many things changed for the Indian
government has not been afraid to change notable for its alacrity rather than a government from when they first proposed
plans and directions in ensuring that the pondering reticence. This suggests that the the Semiconductor Policy. The initial plan
outcome of the semiconductor policy meets potential rewards outweighed any delay. was to develop an indigenous
the needs of India and ensuring that the This is backed up by the fact that in the semiconductor manufacturing industry that
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