Posted on 09/15/2022 3:33:27 AM PDT by FarCenter
Vedanta and Foxconn have announced a joint venture to manufacture semiconductors and displays in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, a deal that will put India firmly in the high-stakes chip-making game.
Vedanta is an Indian oil and gas, metals and electric power conglomerate with interests in India and Africa. Foxconn, also called Hon Hai Precision, is Taiwan’s and the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, best known as the primary assembler of Apple iPhones.
Valued at about US$19.5 billion, the Gujarat project will include semiconductor manufacturing, assembly and test facilities, as well as a display factory. Vedanta will hold 60% of the venture and Foxconn 40%, with production scheduled to start in two years. About 100,000 people are expected to be employed when the project is up and running.
According to the deal’s press release, “The proposed semiconductor manufacturing fab unit will operate on the 28-nm technology nodes and the display manufacturing unit will produce Generation 8 displays catering to small, medium and large applications.”
To be sure, that’s not the world’s most advanced technology but it’s a practical place to start with proven high demand.
If all goes according to plan, “The project will attract electronics ecosystem players across the value chain entailing manufacturers of highly sophisticated and sensitive equipment, materials (high purity gases, chemicals, wafers, photomasks), equipment service providers etc., and will put the state of Gujarat on the global silicon map.”
The project is, in Vedanta’s words, is “… a major step towards making India self-sufficient in the critical area of semiconductors and displays in line with Hon. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s bold vision to make India aatmanirbhar in key futuristic technologies…”
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From the article:
“According to the Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), India’s semiconductor market is likely to grow from $27 billion in 2021 to $64 billion in 2026. In comparison, semiconductor sales amounted to $188 billion in China last year and $117 billion in the US. India is almost 20 years behind China in terms of semiconductor market revenues.”
India Quality Sucks! Unfortunately, I know from experience.
India has to start somewhere. With Foxconn they may get some Taiwanese and Chinese expertise. But foundries require reliable sources of electricity, water, etc. Plus Gujarat is on the border with Pakistan?
I’ve worked with some H1-B visa holders.
Then they try to take over entire IT systems, by hiring only other H1B candidates.
And the software sucks.
For example (for you guy technical with database stuff):
They created our entire system with one large table with 100 columns. Columns were actually labeled “Col1, Col2, etc”
They had a PAPER document that said “Col1 is count of items”, “Col2 is item name”, etc
You miss the point
The announcement is about Foxconn. As the world’s best, they will provide and enforce rigid quality control
Do you think that Foxconn products manufactured in Wisconsin will be junk as well?
Foxconn in Wisconsin is a shadow of what was originally proposed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_in_Wisconsin
28nm technology is circa 2012. By contrast, TSMC design rules are currently 5nm. Hopefully they can alleviate future supply chain interruptions with car parts.
I think that the market will segment into high-performance, high transistor count parts like server processors, high-end smartphone SOCs, GPUs which will be produced on the expensive Extreme Ultra Violet processes and more prosaic parts like microcontrollers, networking ASICs, etc, that are produced on the cheaper Deep Ultra Violet processes. DUV will probably also be used for high-reliability, long life, radiation hardened, and similar characteristics until a lot more experience is gained at the sub 14 nm EUV nodes.
Smart move, chips will continue to be necessary components.
I’m not sure the power is reliable enough to make chips in India.
One outage and its going to be very expensive to recover.
Vedanta has built power plants in India. Best option would be to build a power plant specifically for the fab.
Hopefully it is not a soft border.
They have plans for a huge dedicated solar plant on site (around 300+ days of clear warm weather) as well as dedicated power from the private power plants in Gujarat. They are not far from the coast and the privately owned Pipavav port. They should be able to get whatever utilities and infra they want.
About 250 km away from the Paki border, as the crow flies.
Will monsoon rains cause outages there, or is it in the edge of the desert?
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