Tata Electronics’ Dholera fab, Assam packaging plant on track: CEO and MD Randhir Thakur

NEW DELHI: Tata Electronics’ semiconductor fabrication plant in Dholera, Gujarat, and its semiconductor packaging facility in Assam are progressing as scheduled and remain on track to meet the commitments made to the government, said Tata Electronics CEO and MD Randhir Thakur on Thursday.

Thakur, while speaking at SEMICON India 2026 in New Delhi, also said that the company has brought together more than 450 ecosystem partners for its Dholera fab, covering areas such as construction, equipment, chemicals and materials.

“At Tata Electronics alone, there is rapid progress across our greenfield projects. The fab in Dholera and the packaging facility in Assam are on track to meet the scheduled commitments we have made to the government,” Thakur said.

Tata Electronics, in partnership with PSMC (Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., Taiwan), is constructing India’s first semiconductor fabrication plant in Dholera, Gujarat, with an $11 billion investment. The plant will initially roll out mature process nodes spanning 90nm, 55nm and 28nm.

The company is also setting up the country’s first indigenous Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility.

Tata Electronics will also sign 16 MoUs at SEMICON India with companies and institutions involved in different parts of the semiconductor value chain. The partners include Nexperia and BESI from Europe; JSR, Fujifilm, Sumitomo, Sojitz, Enomoto and Ajinomoto from Japan; Kelington from Malaysia; Ascendas Firstspace from Singapore; and L&T Semiconductors, Inox Air Products, Semi-Conductor Laboratory and Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya from India.

Thakur said the company has created more than 1.5 lakh direct jobs and that thousands of additional jobs are being generated across the wider semiconductor ecosystem. Women account for 65% of Tata Electronics’ workforce, he said.

He added that around 300 fresh graduates from leading Indian universities are currently being trained at the Taiwan fab of Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC), Tata Electronics’ technology partner for its Dholera fab.

“The real beneficiary of the India Semiconductor Mission is this country's youth. The factories we are building today will become your workplace tomorrow,” Thakur said.

He said the focus of India’s semiconductor industry has now shifted from whether the country can manufacture chips to how quickly and deeply it can build the broader ecosystem.

Thakur said India’s electronics industry has grown from around Rs 2 lakh crore in 2014 to more than Rs 13 lakh crore in 2026.

“The question of whether we can make chips in India has changed to how fast and how deep can we build the semiconductor ecosystem in India,” he said.

He also said the recently announced Semiconductor 2.0 policy would act as a catalyst for greater localisation of the semiconductor ecosystem in India.