India aims for self-reliance in chip manufacturing: PM Modi

UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, HCL Group Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra and different dignitaries at Groundbreaking ceremony of HCL-Foxconn Semiconductor JV India Chip Pvt. Ltd. in Jewar

India Chip, the 60:40 three way partnership between HCL Group and Taiwan’s Foxconn facility in Uttar Pradesh (UP) would assist in making the State a expertise ‘powerhouse’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned on Saturday including that India aims for self-reliance in chip manufacturing, and the main focus stays on constructing a strong home semiconductor ecosystem.

The JV firm is organising India’s first Outsourced Semiconductor Meeting and Take a look at (OSAT) facility in the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Growth Authority (YEIDA) at Jewar, Uttar Pradesh at an funding of ₹3,700 crore, which is predicted to be operational by 2028.

Modi mentioned the nation is already transferring ahead right this moment with this huge programme to strengthen India’s semiconductor ecosystem. “India is now striving to face alongside the world’s prime nations in offering the processing energy required to run the trendy world and is working concurrently on software program and {hardware} features,” he mentioned.

The Prime Minister reiterated his imaginative and prescient of the present decade as India’s Techade, stating that investments in inexperienced vitality, house tech, digital expertise, and AI will kind the inspiration of 21^st-century functionality. He additional acknowledged that India is making unprecedented investments in each expertise that can decide the way forward for humanity and improvement of this sturdy semiconductor ecosystem in India is a main instance of this.

The India Chip’s state-of-the-art facility will produce show driver chips and anticipated to create over 3,500 direct and oblique jobs, construct native provide chains, and entice ecosystem companions throughout the Semiconductor worth chain.

With a deliberate capability to course of 20,000 wafers per thirty days, the power will play a pivotal function in assembly India’s rising home demand for semiconductor parts whereas strengthening a resilient, self-reliant semiconductor provide chain, the corporate mentioned.

The inspiration stone was laid by the Prime Minister (nearly) in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Minister of Electronics and Data Expertise, Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Talking on the event, Yogi Adityanath, UP Chief Minister mentioned that Jewar is rising as a jewel not solely for UP, but in addition for the nation. The event of UP will depend upon the Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient for chips, he mentioned.

“The Noida/ Larger Noida will not be solely changing into a hub not solely for cell manufacturing, but in addition main in digital parts manufacturing. Underneath the Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient, Uttar Pradesh is scaling up with abilities and pace, which is clearly seen now,” the CM mentioned.

Meanwhlile Vaishnaw mentioned that the UP State at present contributes 50 per cent of the cell manufacturing in the nation and 25 per cent of the general electronics manufacturing.

“Until right this moment, mobiles, laptops, and many others had been manufactured right here, however now chips will even be added from right here. In a single month, 3.60 crore chips can be rolled out from this facility…there are 18 faculties in UP the place youths/ college students are being skilled for chip designing. There are a really locations the place college students can take part in chip designing,” Vaishnaw added.

Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson, HCL Group, mentioned that this challenge marks a big new chapter in the HCL Group’s progress story and builds on its sturdy engineering legacy, which has lengthy contributed to India’s expertise and manufacturing ecosystem.

“I believe improvement of this ecosystem goes to be very crucial for show/ OSATs as a result of for my understanding that’s securing provide chains round uncommon earths and a few of that, which goes to be crucial to construct semiconductor ecosystem,” she added.

Revealed on February 21, 2026