Government takes several steps to augment supplies of semiconductor chips

Several steps have been taken by the government to augment supplies of semiconductors chips as intimated by Ministry of Electronics and information Technology. Following projects have been approved:

1. Establishment of Gallium Nitride Ecosystem Enabling Center and Incubator for High Power Frequency Electronics.
2. Project for setting up of Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging (ATMP) of NAND Flash memory under PLI Scheme.
3. Project for discrete semiconductor devices including transistors, diode etc. has been approved under Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme.
4. Financial incentive under the scheme for promotion of Manufacturing of Electronic Components and semiconductors (SPECS).

This information was given by the Minister of State for Heavy Industries Krishan Pal Gurjar in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

CT Bureau