India is about to join a very exclusive club. Tata Electronics is building the country’s first commercial semiconductor fabrication plant, a $11 billion facility in Dholera, Gujarat, that aims to start producing silicon by December 2026.
The plant won’t be cranking out cutting-edge 3 nm chips for the latest iPhones. Instead, it’s targeting mature process nodes between 28 nm and 110 nm. These are the chips that power everything from cars to power management systems to IoT devices.
What Tata is actually building
The Dholera facility is designed to produce 300 mm semiconductor wafers at a planned capacity of 50,000 wafers per month. Tata Electronics partnered with Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) for the technology transfer, which was completed in September 2024.
In May 2026, Tata signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ASML, the Dutch company that holds a near-monopoly on advanced lithography equipment. That deal covers plant setup, production ramp-up, and talent development.
