Overview
- The SEMICON India expo opened Thursday at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi with Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurating the show and chairing a high‑level semiconductor roundtable with global and Indian CEOs.
- The Union Cabinet approved Semicon 2.0 in July with an outlay of about ₹1.27 lakh crore to move beyond project approvals toward measurable commercial production and integrated supply‑chain capacity.
- Semicon 2.0 sets concrete targets including backing roughly 200 chip‑design firms and training about 100,000 semiconductor technicians while expanding electronic design automation access to over 400 universities and more than 100 startups.
- Industry execution has already begun under the broader mission with 12 projects sanctioned under the first phase and companies such as Micron, Kaynes and CG Semi starting commercial operations; Micron says its Sanand assembly and test plant will scale to hundreds of millions of chips by 2027.
- The strategy emphasizes domestic machines, chemicals and advanced packaging to reduce dependence on concentrated global suppliers and to supply defence, AI, telecom and automotive sectors while creating factory and technician jobs.