Overview
- Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi laid the foundation at Infovalley, Jatni, with Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw joining by video as SiCSem, a subsidiary of Archean, kicked off construction.
- The integrated facility is designed to process 60,000 SiC wafers a year with packaging capacity of about 96 million units.
- SiCSem targets bringing the plant online in the 2027–28 timeframe.
- Employment projections vary, with over 1,000 direct jobs expected and total opportunities estimated at roughly 5,000.
- An industry–academia push includes a ₹64 crore Research & Innovation Centre at IIT Bhubaneswar and ₹5 crore MPLAD support for a NaMo Semiconductor Lab, with the company also citing collaboration with UK-based Clas‑SiC Wafer Fab.