What happened
The Union Cabinet approved the second phase of the India Semiconductor Mission and the Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme as part of “Semicon 2.0.” The significance lies in the shift from isolated factory incentives to a fuller electronics ecosystem that includes design, machinery, materials, packaging, and research and development.
Background and earlier position
The first phase of the India Semiconductor Mission was approved in December 2021. It was later amended in 2022 to allow capital subsidies for large projects, including Micron’s memory chip packaging facility in Sanand. The first phase also supported electronics component manufacturing through a separate incentive framework.
Phase 1 produced several approved units, many of them in semiconductor packaging, along with a silicon fabrication unit and a gallium-nitride Micro LED display fabrication unit. Tata Electronics has a large fab planned for commercial production in 2028.
What has changed in Semicon 2.0
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