Ministry of Electronics and IT (MoE&IT) committee recommends setting up the India Semiconductor Research Centre (ISRC)
ISRC would be a world-class research institution with an aim to make India a global foundry supplier for semiconductors, packagers, and integrated systems from design to products.
- Semiconductors are materials with conductivity between conductors and insulators, that control the flow of electric current in electronic devices.
- Semiconductors are essential in electronics, including diodes, transistors, integrated circuits, and telecommunications.
ISRC is part of India’s strategy to become a global semiconductor research and innovation hub.
Roadmap of ISRC covering foundational pillars viz:
- Advanced silicon, packaging R&D, compound/power semiconductors, chip design, and electronic design automation (EDA) tools.
Committee Recommend ISRC, would:
- provide a platform for early scaled-up concept verification and
- workload-based prototyping e.g., next-generation chipset-based packaging for AI, 5G/6G, IoT/manufacturing 4.0.
Need
- enable digital transformation under Industry 4.0.
- Increase multiplier effect across sectors with deeper global value chain integration.
- promote higher domestic value addition in electronics manufacturing.
Challenges for Semiconductor: Resource-intensive and expensive process, regular power supply, scarcity of ultrapure water required for chip making.
Initiatives for Semiconductors
- Production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for semiconductors and display manufacturing units
- Design a Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme for financial incentives and design infrastructure support.
- India Semiconductor Mission
- Chip-making initiative
- Scheme for setting up of Compound Semiconductors / Silicon Photonics / Sensors (including MEMS) Fabs / Discrete Semiconductors Fab and Semiconductor ATMP / OSAT facilities in India