1 June 2023

Will India’s USD2 billion push end the Mohali fab’s orchestrated slumber?


The modernisation of India’s only fab, the Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), is still a thought process despite the government’s pledge to spend USD2 billion on it. What is dragging the SCL’s fortunes as the nation seeks to emerge as a semiconductor powerhouse?

In three years, about 400 Vande Bharat trains are expected to connect various destinations in India. Railway minster Ashwini Vaishnaw terms the Vande Bharat trains “computer on wheels”, as a single unit is powered by 30,000 to 32,000 chips. Ironically, none of these are likely to be manufactured by the Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), India’s only fab spread across a 50 acre facility in Mohali, 250km from Delhi. To be sure, SCL has not even

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