FUTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION (FAB) INDUSTRIES IN INDIA- OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Himanshu Kushwah, Anil Sethi

Abstract: The peak demand of electronics products in India will reach several billions in forthcoming years. It has been always a dream of Electronics engineers in India to have a well structured manufacturing sector. At present a good number of companies are working in design but they don’t have their own fabrication facility here. The design projects which they are handling have larger dependency on foreign FABs. The country is a leading exporter of information technology service, including knowledge-intensive chip design under the EDA environment. India’s strength in chip design doesn’t help at all as we are lacking in wafer fabrication. Local electronics manufacturing remains disconnected from India’s chip design capabilities, research and development area. This has also affect the employment of electronics engineer as we have lacking in electronics manufacturing. India’s increasing domestic demand of electronics products results in rise in imports of final products and high dependency on key components/ICs. The manufacturing of semiconductor in India will only boost up with effective and growth oriented semiconductor policy and with a well maintained eco-system set up by the central government so that international player may attract to set up the wafer fabrication and R&D units in India.

Keywords: FAB, ESDM, NPE, EDA, Wafer

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0408014