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India.com
6 days ago
- Business
- India.com
India set to rule semiconductor sector as Modi govt..., companies to benefit most include..., not Mukesh Ambani's Reliance, Narayana Murthy's Infosys
(Representational image: New Delhi: India's semiconductor dream is now entering a new phase. The government has strengthened its goals under 'SemiCon 2.0′, aiming to achieve a 5% share in global chip production by 2030. In 2021, India announced an incentive package of $10 billion (approximately Rs 83,000 crore) to develop its semiconductor ecosystem. This fund has begun to be allocated, and five projects related to chip fabrication, OSAT, and ATMP have been approved under this scheme. The government's goal is to attract global chip companies while also promoting domestic players. If everything goes according to plan, significant opportunities could open up for investors in India's semiconductor value chain. 1. IZMO is known for interactive marketing and visualization technology in the automotive sector, but it is now also making its mark in semiconductor packaging. IZMO's subsidiary, Izmo Microsystems, provides 3D packaging and System-in-Package (SiP) solutions. Its 10+ global clients include the automotive, aerospace, and renewable energy sectors. The company is investing in semiconductor packaging. IZMO is also working on new products like AI, EV software, and virtual retailing. 2. MosChip Technologies is an important part of India's semiconductor design ecosystem. With over 20 years of experience, it specializes in ASIC, SoC, and VLSI design. It is taking advantage of the government's Design Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme. In July 2024, an order worth Rs 50,000 crore was received from C-DAC to design an HPC chip based on 5-nanometer technology. In October 2024, it joined Renesas' AI/ML design partner network. It is focusing on RISC-V architecture and HPC processor development. 3. Cyient, with over 30 years of experience in engineering and technology solutions, is now focusing on semiconductor design. Its new subsidiary, Cyient Semiconductors, is working on chip design and ASIC development. It works with 300+ global clients. In FY25, DET business revenue was $688 million. 4. HCL Technologies, one of India's top IT companies, is now venturing into semiconductor design and testing. It recorded a growth of 5.5% in the ER&D (Engineering Research and Development) segment in FY25. Partnerships with companies like NVIDIA and Google. The company's revenue in FY25 was 13.84 billion dollars. 5. Tata Electronics, a Tata Group company, is constructing India's first commercial semiconductor fabrication plant (Dholera, Gujarat). This 91,000 crore rupee project will produce 50,000 wafers per month. Focus on OSAT (Assembly, Testing) and foundry services. Plans for expansion with global partnerships.
The Hindu
23-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Government-purchased chip design tools used for lakhs of hours in universities
The Union Government's ChipIN Centre has driven lakhs of hours of circuit design training by students at the top electrical engineering institutes, according to data published by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). In 2022, the Union Government announced that it would be licensing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and provide free access to these tools to startups and academia, under the Design Linked Incentive scheme and the Chips to Startups scheme. Anuj Grover, an associate professor at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Delhi, said that the government had paid 'through its teeth' to obtain these licenses, with great benefits for students. EDA tools from one company, Cadence, were used by IIIT students and researchers for more than 31,000 hours in April, according to MeitY's data. 'Both graduate and Ph.D students at IIIT are designing 'small circuits … that would go into chips' using these tools,' Dr. Grover said. These tools give students an advantage when they enter the industry, as most firms making chips also use EDA tools by the same vendors — Synopsys, Cadence, Keysight and Siemens. 'At internships his students undertake,' Dr. Grover said, 'IIIT students were put to work directly, while students from other institutes were given time to learn the EDA tools.' IIIT was previously purchasing a limited number of licenses even before ChipIN stepped in, as the institute has established courses in the subject. Dr. Grover said, 'The scarcity of licenses beforehand led to a small number of students being able to concurrently use the software. And costs for the licenses exceeded more than ₹10 lakh a year.' The government has given these 'EDA tools to 240 universities,' Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said at an event in April. At a separate occasion, while launching the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme, Mr. Vaishnaw again pointed to the effort, saying that a visiting Japanese delegation was 'surprised at the extent of democratisation' of these tools. It's not just IITs and IIITs that are using the EDA software — the data shows, for instance, that the Vellore Institute of Technology clocked more than one lakh hours of tool use from Synopsys in April alone. Dr. Grover said that while open source tools did exist, ChipIN gave them access not just to the tools, but access to dedicated tech support for them, which is included in the licenses the government obtained. The tools are a 'vital step towards generating industry-ready manpower and a self-reliant chip design ecosystem in India,' M. Hari Hara Sudhan, correspondent at the Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology in Coimbatore, told The Hindu. He added that the Chips to Startup programme was 'inculcating the culture of entrepreneurship among students and researchers.'
