Archive · 15 Sep 2025
India Partners on Indigenous Secure Chip for E-Passports
India is teaming up to build a secure chip, like a tiny brain, for things like passports.
L&T Semiconductor, C-DAC, and IIT Gandhinagar are working together.
This chip is designed to be made entirely in India, keeping it extra safe and giving India control over the technology.
It will also help India depend less on buying from other countries.
This chip can be used for other secure applications as well.
It is an important step for India's security.
L&T Semiconductor Technologies, C-DAC, and IIT Gandhinagar are partnering to develop a secure chip.
The primary focus is on electronic passports.
The project aims to create a fully indigenized product.
The partnership includes the establishment of a dedicated research center.
The secure IC solution will be used in other cutting-edge embedded secure applications.
- Who
- L&T Semiconductor Technologies, C-DAC, IIT Gandhinagar
- What
- Partnership to develop a fully indigenous secure chip
- When
- Announced on Monday
- Where
- India
- Why
- To strengthen digital sovereignty and reduce reliance on foreign technology
- Partners
- L&T Semiconductor Technologies, C-DAC, IIT Gandhinagar
- Focus
- Indigenous secure chip
- Initial Application
- Electronic passports
- Goal
- Strengthen digital sovereignty, reduce reliance on imports
- Agreement
- Establishment of a dedicated research center
- Applications
- Secure IC solutions
- LTSCT CEO Quote
- Blueprint for how industry, academia, and government can unite to shape India's technological future
