Rs 100 Cr Budget Allocated Towards Chip Design Related Activities, Says Electronics And IT Minister

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To push the development of semiconductors, the government has approved ‘Establishment of Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator for High Power and High-Frequency Electronics’

Recognizing the importance of chip design in the country, the government is allocating a budget of Rs 100 crore for chip design-related programmes in the ongoing financial year.

This was revealed by Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.

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“The total budget allocation for chip design-related activities/programmes in the current financial year is Rs 100 crore,” Vaishnaw said.

He said that the government is focused on broadening and deepening the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector with semiconductor design as one of the focus areas.

To push the development of semiconductors, the government has approved ‘Establishment of Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator for High Power and High-Frequency Electronics’.

The project is being implemented by Society for Innovation and Development (SID) under the auspices of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Bengaluru at a total project cost of Rs 298.66 crore.

Chip Design PLI Scheme

“An application for setting up of Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging (ATMP) of NAND Flash memory has been approved under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for large scale electronics manufacturing,” Vaishnaw said.

He said that an application for discrete semiconductor devices, including transistors, diodes, thyristors, etc. and System in Package (SIP) has been approved under the PLI Scheme for large scale electronics manufacturing.

Currently, semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities for strategic requirements are available at SemiConductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali; Gallium Arsenide Enabling Technology Centre (GAETEC), Hyderabad and Society for Integrated Circuit Technology and Applied Research (SITAR), Bengaluru, the minister said.

Vaishnaw said that India has a huge talent pool for semiconductor design and a high number of design patents and intellectual property rights (IPR) are produced in the country by design engineers.

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