Six of India’s 12 government-approved chip projects sit in a single state. Gujarat hosts Micron, Tata’s wafer fab, CG Semi, Kaynes, Suchi Semicon and Crystal Matrix, and by our count those six account for roughly 78% of the ₹1.64 lakh crore committed under the India Semiconductor Mission. The rest are spread across Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. As of July 2026, three plants were in commercial production, all of them assembly and test units in Sanand. India’s first commercial wafer fab, at Dholera, was still under construction.
Key Takeaways
- The Centre has approved 12 semiconductor projects across six states, worth about ₹1.64 lakh crore after the May 2026 approvals.
- Gujarat has six of them and about 78% of the money. Tata’s Dholera fab alone is ₹91,526 crore, more than half the national total.
- Micron, Kaynes and CG Semi, all in Sanand, were the three plants in commercial production by July 2026. Tata began packaging work at Jagiroad in Assam in May.
- Most approved units are OSAT plants (assembly, testing and packaging). Only a few make wafers, and none of those was in commercial output by mid-2026.
How Many Semiconductor Plants Does India Have?
Twelve have central approval. A PIB backgrounder from February 2026 listed ten projects in six states, worth about ₹1.60 lakh crore as of December 2025. In May 2026 the Union Cabinet added two more in Gujarat, Crystal Matrix at Dholera and Suchi Semicon at Surat, with a combined investment of about ₹3,936 crore. That took the total to 12 projects and roughly ₹1.64 lakh crore, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Approval is not the same thing as production. Some of these units were shipping product by mid-2026. Others had no public status update at all. Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said five plants should be operational by the end of 2026 (data as of July 2026).
Fab, OSAT and ATMP in One Paragraph
A fab etches circuits onto silicon wafers. It is the expensive, difficult end of the business. An OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) or ATMP (assembly, testing, marking and packaging) unit receives finished wafers, cuts them into chips, packages them and tests them. Micron’s Sanand plant is a good example: the PMO says it converts DRAM and NAND wafers made elsewhere in Micron’s network into finished memory products. Most of India’s approved projects are of this second kind.
All 12 Approved Semiconductor Projects, by State
Investment and capacity come from the PIB ISM 2.0 document unless noted. Status reflects the latest public update we could find, and “not reported” means exactly that, not that work has stalled.
| Company | Location | Type | Investment (₹ crore) | Status (latest public update) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micron Technology | Sanand, Gujarat | ATMP for DRAM and NAND memory | 22,516 | Inaugurated 28 Feb 2026; in operation |
| Tata Electronics (with PSMC) | Dholera, Gujarat | Wafer fab, about 50,000 wafer starts a month | 91,526 | Advanced construction (July 2026) |
| CG Power (CG Semi), with Renesas and Stars Microelectronics | Sanand, Gujarat | OSAT | 7,584 | Commercial production from 4 July 2026 |
| Kaynes Semicon | Sanand, Gujarat | OSAT, over 6.33 million chips a day | 3,307 | Inaugurated March 2026; in operation |
| Suchi Semicon | Surat, Gujarat | OSAT for discrete chips, 1,033.2 million a year | 3,936 (with Crystal Matrix) | Approved May 2026; pilot plant running |
| Crystal Matrix | Dholera, Gujarat | Mini/micro-LED displays and GaN epitaxy wafers | Included above | Approved May 2026; construction due to start |
| Tata Electronics | Jagiroad, Assam | OSAT, 48 million units a day | 27,120 | Packaging work began May 2026 |
| Vama Sundari (HCL-Foxconn JV) | Near Jewar airport, Uttar Pradesh | Display driver chips, about 20,000 wafers a month | 3,706 | Approved May 2025; not reported |
| SiCSem | Info Valley, Bhubaneswar, Odisha | Silicon carbide fab with packaging | 2,066 | Approved Aug 2025; not reported |
| 3D Glass Solutions | Info Valley, Bhubaneswar, Odisha | Glass substrates and advanced packaging | 1,943 | Approved Aug 2025; not reported |
| Continental Device India (CDIL) | Mohali, Punjab | Discrete power devices (expansion) | 117 | Approved Aug 2025; not reported |
| Advanced System in Package (ASIP) | Andhra Pradesh | System-in-package units, 96 million a year | 480 | Approved Aug 2025; not reported |
Status sources: the PMO for Micron’s inauguration date; a Gujarat government release carried by DeshGujarat (4 July 2026) for the other Gujarat units; Techloy for Jagiroad; and PIB’s August 2025 Cabinet release for the Odisha, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh sites. The Jewar location comes from the May 2025 Cabinet note.
Gujarat: Sanand and Dholera Carry the Programme
Sanand, west of Ahmedabad, has turned into the place where India’s chips actually come off a line. Micron was the first proposal approved under the mission. Its ground-breaking was in September 2023, and the PMO says the plant will have about 500,000 sq ft of cleanroom once fully ramped. Kaynes followed with an inauguration in March 2026. CG Semi, the joint venture of CG Power with Japan’s Renesas and Thailand’s Stars Microelectronics, started commercial production on 4 July 2026. The Tribune reported it as the third plant to reach that point in 2026.
Dholera, in the state’s special investment region, is the long bet. The Tata-PSMC fab is the single largest project on the list. Gujarat’s July release said it was in advanced construction and would be the country’s first commercial foundry. It gave no date for first output, and we have not found an official one since. Crystal Matrix’s display and gallium nitride unit, approved in May, will sit nearby.
Assam, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh
- Assam (Jagiroad, Morigaon district): Tata’s ₹27,120 crore packaging plant is the biggest project outside Gujarat. Techloy reported in May 2026 that a line moved from Tata’s Vemagal site in Karnataka had started packaging chips there, ahead of the full target of 48 million units a day.
- Odisha (Bhubaneswar): two units in Info Valley. SiCSem, working with Clas-SiC Wafer Fab of the UK, plans a silicon carbide line of 60,000 wafers a year, the material used in EV and power electronics. 3D Glass Solutions plans glass-substrate packaging.
- Uttar Pradesh (near Jewar): the HCL-Foxconn venture will make display driver chips for phones and laptops.
- Punjab (Mohali): CDIL is expanding an existing brownfield plant that makes MOSFETs, IGBTs and diodes, at a modest ₹117 crore.
- Andhra Pradesh: ASIP plans 96 million system-in-package units a year for phones, set-top boxes and cars. PIB has not named the town.
Where the Money Sits: A State-By-State Count
We added up the PIB investment figures by state. The ₹3,936 crore for Suchi and Crystal Matrix is only published as a combined number, which does not matter here because both units are in Gujarat.
| State | Projects | Investment (₹ crore) | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gujarat | 6 | 1,28,869 | 78.4% |
| Assam | 1 | 27,120 | 16.5% |
| Odisha | 2 | 4,009 | 2.4% |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 3,706 | 2.3% |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 480 | 0.3% |
| Punjab | 1 | 117 | 0.1% |
| Total | 12 | 1,64,301 | 100% |
The arithmetic is simple. The ten earlier projects add up to ₹1,60,365 crore. Adding the May 2026 pair gives ₹1,64,301 crore, which matches the PMO’s “about ₹1.64 lakh crore”. Gujarat’s four older projects come to ₹1,24,933 crore, close to the ₹1.24 lakh crore the state government quotes for its whole portfolio. Tata’s Dholera fab on its own is 55.7% of the national total. If that one project slips, the headline figure barely changes but India’s fab ambitions do.
What Comes After: ISM 2.0
The Union Budget 2026-27 gave a second phase of the mission an outlay of ₹1,000 crore for FY27, according to the PIB document. The emphasis moves away from big plant subsidies and towards semiconductor equipment and materials made in India, home-grown chip design IP, and industry-led research and training centres. The same document mentions a roadmap towards 3 nm and 2 nm nodes and an aim of joining the leading chip nations by 2035. It gives no project-level detail for either.
What It Means for Indian Businesses
This is our reading, not an official view. For the next couple of years, “made in India chips” will mostly mean chips packaged and tested in India from wafers made abroad. That still matters. Having packaging capacity at home can shorten lead times for electronics makers who buy memory, power devices and discrete parts. The Suchi Semicon approval, for example, is aimed at power electronics and industrial systems, which are the parts small Indian manufacturers buy in bulk.
For suppliers, the obvious opening is Sanand and Dholera: industrial gases, cleanroom services, specialty chemicals, logistics and housing. Several of the companies above are also listed. If you follow them as stocks, read their filings rather than headlines; our Stocks section covers how to do that. For wider coverage of the industry, see our Technology section.
FAQ
How Many Semiconductor Plants Are There in India?
Twelve projects have central approval under the India Semiconductor Mission as of May 2026, worth about ₹1.64 lakh crore. Three were in commercial production by July 2026.
Which State Has the Most Semiconductor Plants in India?
Gujarat, with six approved projects in Sanand, Dholera and Surat and about 78% of the total investment.
Where Is India’s First Semiconductor Fab?
At Dholera in Gujarat, built by Tata Electronics with Taiwan’s PSMC. It was under construction in July 2026, and no official date for first output had been published.
Has India Started Making Chips?
India has started packaging and testing them. Micron, Kaynes and CG Semi in Sanand were in commercial production by July 2026, and Tata began packaging at Jagiroad in May 2026. Commercial wafer fabrication had not started.
What Is the Difference Between a Fab and an OSAT Plant?
A fab makes the circuits on silicon wafers. An OSAT plant takes finished wafers, cuts out the chips, then packages and tests them. Fabs cost far more and take longer to build.
Sources
- PIB: India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 (February 2026)
- PMO: Cabinet approves two semiconductor units in Gujarat (May 2026)
- PIB: Cabinet approves semiconductor units in Odisha, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh (August 2025)
- Cabinet approves semiconductor unit in Uttar Pradesh (May 2025)
- PMO: PM to visit Gujarat on 28 February (Micron Sanand ATMP)
- DeshGujarat: Six semiconductor projects worth ₹1.24 lakh crore in Gujarat (July 2026)
- The Tribune: Five semiconductor plants to be operational by end of 2026 (July 2026)
- Techloy: Tata Electronics begins production at Assam chip plant (May 2026)
