Tata builds a non-China chip supply chain (opens the source in a new tab)
- Tata Electronics has signed at least nine non-Chinese suppliers, including ASMPT, Nexperia, Fujifilm and Kelington, for its Assam chip assembly plant.
- The Jagiroad plant, India’s third chip assembly-and-test unit, is slated to start production in December and scale to 48 million chips a day.
- Subsidies cover 70% of the net cost of Tata’s Assam and Dholera chip projects, leaving Tata to invest ₹35,400 crore.
- 9+
- non-China suppliers
- 48mn
- chips a day at scale
- 70%
- net cost subsidised
Why it matters India’s chip push needs supplies that geopolitics can’t switch off.
Other side Executives say the aim is diversity, not shutting China out; typical chip-assembly supply chains are 55–60% China-based. Can alternatives match China on cost?
Source:Mint (free to read) ↗