New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday approved four new semiconductor manufacturing projects under the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), with a cumulative investment of around ₹4,600 crore.
The proposals, submitted by SiCSem, Continental Device India Pvt. Ltd. (CDIL), 3D Glass Solutions Inc., and Advanced System in Package (ASIP) Technologies, are expected to create 2,034 direct skilled jobs and numerous indirect employment opportunities, bolstering India’s electronic manufacturing ecosystem.
With these approvals, the total sanctioned projects under ISM have reached 10 across six states, representing cumulative investments of about ₹1.60 lakh crore.
Project Details:
- SiCSem (Odisha) – In collaboration with Clas-SiC Wafer Fab Ltd., UK, the facility in Bhubaneswar’s Info Valley will be India’s first commercial Silicon Carbide (SiC) compound semiconductor fab, producing 60,000 wafers and 96 million packaged units annually. Applications include missiles, EVs, railways, fast chargers, defence systems, and solar inverters.
- 3D Glass Solutions Inc. (Odisha) – Will establish an advanced packaging and embedded glass substrate unit in Info Valley, bringing world-class glass interposer and 3D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI) technology to India. Planned output: 69,600 glass panel substrates, 50 million assembled units, and 13,200 3DHI modules annually, with applications in AI, defence, photonics, and high-performance computing.
- ASIP Technologies (Andhra Pradesh) – In partnership with APACT Co. Ltd., South Korea, this plant will produce 96 million semiconductor units annually for use in mobile devices, set-top boxes, automotive electronics, and other applications.
- CDIL (Punjab) – Brownfield expansion in Mohali to manufacture MOSFETs, IGBTs, Schottky diodes, and transistors in both silicon and SiC, with a capacity of 158.38 million units annually for EVs, renewable energy, industrial power systems, and telecom infrastructure.
Officials said these projects will strengthen India’s position in the global semiconductor supply chain, complement the country’s growing chip design sector, and align with the Aatmanirbhar Bharat vision.
Over 60,000 students have already benefited from government-supported semiconductor talent development programs, with design infrastructure made available to 278 academic institutions and 72 startups.
