Archive · 27 Aug 2026
India’s Semiconductor Push Advances With Tata’s Dholera Fab
India wants to build a stronger chip industry.
Chips are tiny parts used in many electronic devices.
The country’s only chip factory so far is the state-run Semiconductor Laboratory in Mohali, Punjab.
It started operating in 1984.
That factory still uses older ways to make chips.
Tata Electronics is setting up a new factory in Dholera.
This would be India’s first commercial factory designed to make chips with more advanced technology.
The development is part of India’s push to attract semiconductor investment.
India’s only chip fabrication facility so far is the state-run Semiconductor Laboratory in Mohali, Punjab.
The Semiconductor Laboratory began operations in 1984.
The facility still manufactures chips using older technologies.
Tata Electronics is developing a chip fab in Dholera, Gujarat.
Tata’s facility is described as India’s first commercial fab intended to use more advanced process technologies.
- Who
- Tata Electronics and the state-run Semiconductor Laboratory are identified; the headline also mentions L&T.
- What
- India’s semiconductor investment push is gaining pace, including Tata Electronics’ planned commercial chip fab.
- When
- The articles do not specify when the new fab will begin operations; the Semiconductor Laboratory began operations in 1984.
- Where
- The existing Semiconductor Laboratory is in Mohali, Punjab, while Tata Electronics’ fab is in Dholera, Gujarat.
- Why
- Tata Electronics’ Dholera facility is intended to manufacture chips using more advanced process technologies than the existing facility.
- Existing national fab
- Semiconductor Laboratory in Mohali, Punjab
- Ownership
- The Semiconductor Laboratory is state-run.
- SCL operating since
- 1984
- Current SCL technology
- Older chip-manufacturing technologies
- New fab developer
- Tata Electronics
- New fab location
- Dholera, Gujarat
- Significance
- Described as India’s first commercial fab for more advanced process technologies