Growing India’s Position in Semiconductor Supply Chain.
Semi conductor industry is basically divided into 4 major parts
- Design, Fabrication, Assembly Testing and Packaging and Equipment Manufacuring.
No single company and country is specialised in all above 4 major Tasks. Companies which are Good in design lag behind in Fabrication and countries which are good in fabrication lag behind in Eqipment Manufacuturing.
Which task is most difficult in Semiconductor supply chain
Fabrication that is actual manufacturing of semiconductor is toughest part of Supply chain. It required extra precision manufacuring technique, clearn enviornment, clean water and highly skilled labor. Fabrication is also capital intensive activity, which require billions of Dollar
Where India can Lead in semiconductor supply chain
So far India has been leading only in Semiconductor Desiging around 20% of world Chips design Engineer.(https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2148393) Desiging is mental process and require various software and hardware to design and test.Chip Designing is the process of creating a blueprint for semiconductor chips. It involves defining requirements, designing architecture, logic and circuits, arranging them into a physical layout with EDA tools, and verifying through simulations. The final design is sent to fabrication (tape-out) where chips are manufactured, tested, and packaged. 72 companies are provided chip design infrastructure such as EDA tools & FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) boards from Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, etc.
List of famour Chips Desinging companies of India
MosChip Technologies (Hyderabad),Sankhya Labs (Bengaluru),Signalchip Innovations (Bengaluru),Mirafra Technologies (Bengaluru),Ineda Systems (Hyderabad, now part of Qualcomm) etc
India’s Entry in Chip Fabrication
India has approved Semiconductor Manufacturing Programme with a total outlay of Rs 76,000 crore for catalysing semiconductor and display manufacturing ecosystem in India, Six (6) semiconductor manufacturing and 22 design-linked incentive (DLI) projects have been approved.
