With this announcement, India’s ambitious Rs 76,000 crore semiconductor mission is taking commercial shape, as companies approved the project begin signing on customers.
Tata Electronics has entered into a strategic partnership with Japan’s ROHM for automotive semiconductor assembly and testing in India for both Indian and global markets. This comes a week after the Tata Group announced a similar deal with Intel.
The Tata Group is currently building two semiconductor facilities in India, worth around $14 billion. One of these is a fabrication plant being set up in Gujarat, and the other is an assembly and testing plant coming up in Assam. Collectively, these plants will aim to serve customers across sectors like automotive, mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, defence, aerospace, among others.
As part of the deal, Tata Electronics will assemble and test ROHM’s India-designed automotive-grade Nch 100V, 300A Si MOSFET in a TOLL package, targeting mass production shipments by next year. The companies will also explore co-development of high-value packaging technologies in the future. Both companies will combine efforts to market the products manufactured through this collaboration, they said in a press release. ROHM is a major semiconductor manufacturing and design company in the automotive space.
“Through our semiconductor assembly and test facilities, Tata Electronics will deliver chip packaging services to support ROHM in creating products tailored for Indian and global markets,” said Randhir Thakur, CEO and MD, Tata Electronics.
Earlier this month, Tata Electronics and Intel signed a deal for the manufacturing and packaging of Intel products for local markets at Tata Electronics’ upcoming fabrication and OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) facilities. The deal will also focus on collaboration for advanced packaging in India.
Intel and Tata will also explore the opportunity to rapidly scale tailored AI PC solutions for consumer and enterprise markets in India, which is projected to be a global top five market by 2030.
In August, the Union Cabinet approved four new semiconductor assembly and testing plants in the country, with the government now offering financial incentives for the construction of a total of 10 chip-related factories, ranging from a fabrication plant to assembly and testing operations.
This includes the Tata-PSMC fab, being built at a cost of roughly $11 billion, along with assembly and testing plants by US-based Micron Technology, the Tatas, Murugappa Group’s CG Power in partnership with Japan’s Renesas, Kaynes Semicon, and HCL-Foxconn.