India’s 1st made-in-India chip to roll out from Sanand’s CG Semi plant: IT minister: India’s 1st made-in-India chip to roll out from Sanand’s CG Semi plant: IT minister | Latest News India
Information Technology (IT) minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced at the inauguration of CG Semi’s pilot OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) facility.
Also, India’s First Semiconductor OSAT Pilot Line Facility Ready, Micron Semiconductor Plant Progress: https://youtu.be/ZxDM_vRyYtQ
In which devices will this be used?
this is the first assembled/packaged and tested chip. a good start. miles to go before the first manufactured chip. hopefully soon.
this is probably in the range of 110 nm to 28 nm. so taking ~90nm for a start maybe used in some low end defence applications.
So we are miles away to produce chips for mobile & CPUs.
At least we started now, there were some discussions on collaboration with Japan, so chances are there for rapid progress.
Our business-politico team have to act on this quickly for self reliance.
Well at least it’s a start.
Japan will be a great partner in semiconductors,we need a deeper partnership with them
they are totally in US control. we can’t expect great cooperation with tech or tech transfer as before. so they might just finance projects as it also benefits them.
@DrFreeman agree with you too. ..Japan is totally under US control. Atleast France can still dare USA sometimes but Japan will start wagging its tail once it sees USA…( no offence to beautiful people of Japan but fact )
I agree with @TEUser2K1 we should be happy we started atleast. High time ..the leaders here lack long time vision so that is why we are always late to the party but hope we will pull off something like ISRO.
By the time India plans chip manufacturing China already started manufacturing chip manufacturing equipment. That is the difference.
‘Vikram 3201’: ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’s’ Deep-Space Microchip, A Game-Changer: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/vikram-3201-aatmanirbhar-bharats-deep-space-microchip-a-game-changer-9202350?pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll
Nearly every modern electronic item needs microchips, and India is positioning itself to be a key player in this space, competing against Taiwan, China, South Korea, and the United States.
Article with more technical details.
ASML Pitches for India Business as Modi Eyes Chip Making: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/asml-pitches-for-india-business-as-modi-eyes-local-chip-making
Ooh, I think this makes it the 2nd successful trial of assembling chips?
We had a chip manufacturing plant too, but that got into fire and went up in flames forever.
Seeing as the news article says it’ll be used in automobile, I think it might be assembling chips of 30nm-108nm in size. That’s honestly really nice. So many usecases we can tap into with that.
Good start.
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Considering this is helped by ISRO, Vikram 3201 may have space related applications too ?
”It also has high-level support for the Ada programming language, which is widely known for its reliability and has applications in satellites, air traffic control systems, and launch vehicles.”
Oh, definitely. My reason for specifying automobile was simply because I wanted to speculate how big the chips would be.
Space applications are wild and can have anywhere from 20nm to 150nm or even higher. As a rule of thumb, bigger transistor size are more resistant to electron jumping around and all, so a common way in spaceships iirc is to have redundant CPUs and chips, and many chips that are more exposed are made using 108nm processes or higher. That’s why I didn’t consider it in my reply, since it doesn’t help narrow down my speculation. Smartphones also have bigger thingies, possibly around the SRAM or other such places, but they’re part of the processor mostly, so can’t be assembled differently.
What are the biggest constraints for India to get ahead in Fab ? Apparently we are already very good at Design.
Why can’t the 2 As of India along with other successful firms try and invest more into this ?
It could be a game changer if we have greater collaboration with Taiwanese firms.
Big leap for India’s chip dream: First telecom system with made-in-India chips gets TEC nod: Big leap for India’s chip dream: First telecom system with made-in-India chips gets TEC nod
A milestone that signals India’s serious entry into the global semiconductor race.
Nobody in the world can make a 2nm chip on their own. Only TSMC fabricates it, Samsung is stuck at 4nm I think. TSMC uses machines from ASML for making those chips. ASML is dutch company. It uses many technologies owned by Americans. So they can block anyone from getting those machines.
The ASML machines use mirrors from Carl Zeiss, a European company which can make mirrors that can reflect 1mm light beam till moon with almost zero distortion. That’s what you need to make chips at 2-5nm level.
It’ll take decades of engineering to get anywhere with those on our own. As I said, nobody has done it on their own. Americans came up with the idea of an IC, and kept reducing the size till TSMC and Samsung took over. They both spend 100s of billions every year to keep up.
28nm is a good start and will address most real world and msot importantly defense applications. For computers 14nm is good enough. After that its mainly trying to reduce energy consumption. If you can generate solar energy in loads, energy consumption isnt a limiting factor.
China is at 7nm, and they have been trying to copy ASML machines for ages now by planting their people in ASML and stealing and hacking the designs. This is very high level science and engineering. Extremely difficult to master even if you have all the designs.
What we need is mastery in some next gen tech, to gain leverage. Hopefully the decision makers now understand its importance and will get working on that.
Great start, How much nm is this chip?
The microprocessor is developed using SCL’s 180nm CMOS technology:
Can you access: https://www.scl.gov.in/products_pdf/SC1130-0_Information_sheet.pdf