Semiconductor India Q&A
is music to the ears of most people. This sharing of technology expertise has become Q8: Recent announcements show that the
will also help increase the revenue for imperative for the industry to move ahead. Policy will now look at different silicon
broadcasters and mobile operators. manufacturing ideas, such as
Q7: Do you envisage multi national photovoltaic and packaging. Which
Our aim is towards innovative chip design companies applying to the Semiconductor sectors are most likely to benefit from
powering futuristic, miniaturisation, Policy and, if so, what area? your work?
convergence, high performance and low As the semiconductor ecosystem evolves, The Indian government has been supportive
power, which are the key to future electronic manufacturing services firms and and has encouraged the growth of
semiconductor industry and we plan to handset vendors are establishing semiconductor industry. In Feb 2007, the
focus in that direction only. manufacturing units here. Experts believe a Indian government approved a special
fabrication plant in India will be at an incentive package to attract investments in
Q6: Has there been an increase in cross advantage to serve the emerging local semiconductor and allied hi tech
communication between the different demand. manufacturing.
parts of the value chain?
The Indian ecosystem has evolved into Companies are moving up the value This special incentive scheme is valid only
Indian transnational companies with India chain driving critical and complex design till 2010 and applies to the manufacture of
R&D centres, design service companies, projects for global markets out of their semiconductor products; various display
startups, MNC IDCs, design services firms. India centres. Indian teams built expertise technologies including LCDs, OLEDs,
Products that are available in the market in areas like verification, validation, plasma display panels and other emerging
now i.e. auto infotainment components, testing and have gradually moved up display technologies, including storage
high end mobile phones, consumer from mere low cost skilled resource devices, solar cells, photo voltaics, other
electronics products have been centres to developing end-to-end chips out advanced micro and nano technology
conceptualised about 24 months in advance. of India. products, and assembly and test. The
Government hopes to get at least $10B
There is synergy among manufacturers of Increased inflow of MNCs setting up worth on investment in the next couple of
OEMs and semiconductor and design offshore design and development base and years due to the semiconductor policy. This
service companies to create products and investing in design centres is expected to is a favourable opportunity for the
continuously improve these products. fuel the chip design market in India. manufacturing industry. Sectors which are
Conceptualising and improving needs Also rapid growth in the telecom and most likely to benefit from an overall
different parts of the value chain to work wireless sector has set pace for an increase industry point of view will be Photovoltaic/
closely, therefore industry alliances and in semiconductor demand in this sector. Display / Test and Validation.
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