Dholera semiconductor fab
Tata Electronics and PSMC
This page covers technology and products, incentives and partners, and status and timeline. Every figure below carries the source it came from and the date it was recorded.
The Dholera semiconductor fab is India's first commercial semiconductor fabrication plant, built by Tata Electronics with Taiwan's Powerchip (PSMC). The anchor industrial investment is the Tata Electronics semiconductor fab, approved by the Union Cabinet on 29 February 2024 under the India Semiconductor Mission, a Rs 91,000 crore facility built with Taiwan's PSMC for up to 50,000 wafers a month on a 300mm line.
| Operator | Tata Electronics (with PSMC, Taiwan) |
|---|---|
| Investment | Rs 91,000 crore (~US$11B) |
| Capacity | up to 50,000 wafers/month, 300mm |
| Cabinet approval | 29 February 2024 |
| Jobs | >20,000 (target) |
| First silicon | late 2026 (target) |
| SEZ | 66-hectare semiconductor SEZ notified |
- fab
- A semiconductor fabrication plant. The factory where chips are made.
- wafer
- The thin disc of silicon that chips are cut from. A fab's capacity is quoted in wafers per month.
- SIR
- Special Investment Region. A large area the Gujarat government has set aside for industry under its own 2009 law, with its own planning authority instead of the usual local one.
- TP scheme
- Town planning scheme. The authority pools all the land in one area, lays out the roads and services, then hands each owner back a smaller but serviced plot.
- DSIRDA
- The statutory authority that plans and regulates Dholera SIR, in place of a municipal corporation.
- DICDL
- The company that actually builds Dholera. Gujarat holds 51% of it and the central government holds 49% through the NICDC Trust.
- NICDC
- The central agency that runs India's industrial corridor programme, which Dholera sits inside.
Technology and products
The fab targets mature and specialty nodes (28, 40, 55, 90 and 110 nm) for products such as power-management ICs, display drivers, microcontrollers and high-performance-computing logic. Tata Electronics has stated the plan was always to start at 55nm and 90nm, followed by 28nm, so first chips are at a mature node rather than the leading edge. Reported
Incentives and partners
The India Semiconductor Mission covers up to 50% of eligible cost; the fiscal support agreement was signed on 5 March 2025. Confirmed Tata Electronics announced a strategic partnership with ASML for lithography, and the Centre notified a 66-hectare Tata Semiconductor SEZ in Dholera in April 2026. Reported
Status and timeline
Construction crossed the halfway mark by mid-2026 with cleanroom fit-out underway. First trial silicon is targeted for late 2026, and commercial production has been reported to move to about mid-2028. No source confirms a chip has been produced, so the dates remain targets. Reported
This article follows Dholerapedia's sourcing standard: every figure is tagged Confirmed (government or official), Reported (press or trade) or Unverified (broker), and dated. Anything framed as a future event is labelled a target until a government source confirms it. Where a fact is not reliably available, we say so rather than estimate. See the methodology.
Key facts
These are the core facts for dholera semiconductor fab, written out in full. Each one comes from a source listed at the foot of this page and is current as at the review month.
- Operator: Tata Electronics (with PSMC, Taiwan).
- Investment: Rs 91,000 crore (~US$11B).
- Capacity: up to 50,000 wafers/month, 300mm.
- Cabinet approval: 29 February 2024.
- Jobs: >20,000 (target).
- First silicon: late 2026 (target).
- SEZ: 66-hectare semiconductor SEZ notified.
Dholera SIR in one paragraph
Dholera SIR is a planned industrial city covering about 920 sq km, of which roughly 422 sq km is marked for urban development. That land is being delivered as six town planning schemes, spread over roughly three decades. DSIRDA is the authority that plans and regulates the region, and DICDL is the company that builds it, owned 51% by Gujarat and 49% by the central government through the NICDC Trust. Dholera is the flagship node of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. That is the frame every entry here sits in. The fuller version is in What Dholera SIR is and the master plan.
References
- NICDC Delivery Monitoring Unit report, 30 June 2026 (DPIIT).
- Press Information Bureau, ISM-Tata fiscal support.
- tataelectronics.com newsroom (Tata-ASML partnership).
- Moneycontrol, 14 April 2026 (66-hectare SEZ).
This is a reference, so it is written to be checked rather than believed. Each figure is marked Confirmed when a government or official record says it, Reported when the press or trade said it, and Unverified when only a seller says it. Each one carries a date, because Dholera keeps moving and a number that was right last year may not be right now. Anything still in the future is written as a target until a government source confirms it happened, and where a fact is not reliably available we say so instead of guessing.
None of this is legal, tax or investment advice, and no government source promises that land here will rise in value. If you are looking at one specific plot, treat everything on this page as background and confirm that parcel's own GUJRERA registration, title and price yourself before you pay. If a figure here has gone out of date, tell us on the contact page and we will correct it. All the figures gathered in one place are in Dholera in numbers, and the full method is on the methodology page.