Semiconductors are often known as the brain of modern electronics, which is an inarguable truth. With the country's oldest and major mul...
Semiconductors are often known as the brain of modern electronics, which is an inarguable truth. With the country's oldest and major multi-national conglomerate Tata Group has forayed into the manufacturing of semiconductor products that will be used in most forms of modern technology across many industries.
Laying the foundation stone of LIGO India, Prime Minister Modi expressed his vision with the India-US collaboration venture for a mega science project in astronomy, which includes the construction, commissioning and joint state of the art scientific operations. LIGO India will provide a platform to researchers and students in this field that would propel at a pace to catchup and be on the forefront of leadership in advance science.
Dozens of Indian students have already been given the opportunity to work with LIGO Caltech under Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, SURF programme with this new collaboration. A large talented workforce have already attracted giant global corporations in India’s mobile market, and infrastructure.
With the recent land acquisition by Apple, the leaders of Smartphone Technology, it has triggered the likes and interests of its rival and South Korean company, Samsung. Having opened its largest factory in Capital New Delhi’s satellite city, Noida, it manufactures and assembles both for domestic & export markets. India has certainly emerged as the first destination for mobile phones companies in the recent years, ever since the pandemic and its near past.
For rumoured over a year, Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran had confirmed nearing the end of 2022, about the company's plans to venture into the semiconductor business. Tata Electronics Private Limited (TEPL) a new company under Tata Group, is seen as a greenfield venture with expertise in manufacturing precision components. It will be setting up an Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility initially, headed by Raja Manickam the appointed CEO of Tata Electronics OSAT India, way back in 2021. OSAT, is also referred to as assembly, testing, marking, and packaging (ATMP) units, plays a crucial role in semiconductor manufacturing as they package and test the silicon chips made at the foundries before they are shipped to the market.
Sometime back, Tata Group was also in the news for its plans to set up a $300-million semiconductor manufacturing facility. The company hadn’t applied for the government’s semiconductor fab scheme, until early last year.
“The year-old rumour of Tata Group setting up an OSAT has almost been confirmed. Tata’s hired Raja Manickam as its CEO for the OSAT division for the semiconductors testing division. He has been probably exploring it for almost a year, and finally, they are closing on the OSAT part.”
Says, a semiconductor analyst Arun Mampazhy.
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