Intel, 3DGS to set up $3.3 billion substrate plant in India's Odisha state

A man walks across the logo of Intel at the ongoing India Mobile Congress 2025 at Yashobhoomi, a convention and expo center in New Delhi, India, October 8, 2025. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

29 May 2026 08:48PM

NEW DELHI, May 29 : U.S. chipmaker Intel and 3DGS Inc. USA will invest about $3.3 billion to set up a substrate manufacturing plant in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, the Indian government said on Friday.Here are some details:• The project is expected to create more than 1,800 direct high-skilled jobs.• Substrates are the bedrock material on which elements of a semiconductor device are attached.

• New Delhi has pledged billions of dollars in subsidies to attract semiconductor plants and related manufacturing as a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wider push to build more products locally.• The plant, planned to be set up in the Bhubaneswar-Khurda region over a period of five to six years, will focus on advanced packaging glass core substrates, high-density interconnect substrates and associated semiconductor technologies.

Source: Reuters