Tata's new semiconductor plant to make 4.83 crore chips per day, here's how the company plans to achieve this feat
Tata Group's semiconductor plant in Assam will produce 4.83 crore chips per day using indigenously-developed technologies, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Chairman of Tata Sons Limited N Chandrasekaran on Saturday performed the Bhumi pujan of the ₹27,000-crore semiconductor assembly and test facility at Jagiroad in Morigaon district.
The project was approved by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 29, 2024.
"The construction of the plant has started in short span of five months after the project was approved. It will manufacture about 4.83 crore chips per day. The unique thing about this plant is that all the three major technologies which will be deployed in this plant are developed in India," Vaishnaw said.
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The minister said that the chips manufactured at the Tata plant will be used in vehicles including electric vehicles, and practically every large company will be using their chips.
Vaishnaw said the communication and network infrastructure, every large company manufacturing 5G, routers etc. will be using these chips.
"Semiconductor is a foundational industry. Whenever a semiconductor unit comes there will be many more downstream employment which will get created and there will be many more upstream, because the ecosystem is so complex that a lot many units come the moment a mother unit comes," Vaishnaw said.
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Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran at the Bhumi Pujan ceremony of the factory said the chip assembly plant in Assam will create 27,000 jobs, including 15,000 direct and 12,000 indirect employment opportunities.
The plant is expected to become operational in 2025.
The minister further said that a major part of the India Semiconductor
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