Tata’s Dholera Fab Set to Deliver India’s First Semiconductor Chip by 2026
New Delhi, March 13 – India is on track to roll out its first homegrown semiconductor chip by 2026, with the ₹91,000 crore mega fabrication plant at Dholera Special Investment Region, Gujarat, leading the charge. The facility is being developed by Tata Electronics in partnership with Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC).
Equipped with next-generation factory automation, data analytics, and machine learning tools for maximum efficiency, the fab will have a production capacity of up to 50,000 wafers per month. According to Frank Huang, Chairman of PSMC, production will begin with 28-nanometer chips, later advancing to 22 nm technology.
The Dholera plant will produce high-performance compute chips as well as power management chips for sectors like electric vehicles (EVs), telecom, defence, automotive, consumer electronics, display technology, and power electronics.
PSMC, a global leader with six foundries in Taiwan, brings extensive expertise in logic and memory chip manufacturing to the partnership.
The project is part of India’s larger ₹1.26 lakh crore semiconductor push, which also includes:
- Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test Pvt. Ltd. (Assam) – ₹27,000 crore investment for chip assembly and testing.
- CG Power & Industrial Solutions with Japan’s Renesas (Sanand, Gujarat) – ₹7,600 crore investment to produce 15 million chips per day.
- Micron Technology (US) – ₹22,516 crore chip assembly plant already under development.
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw noted that while semiconductor fabs typically take 3–4 years to start production, efforts are underway to compress the timeline and accelerate India’s semiconductor self-reliance mission.
