Tata Electronics Sends Staff To Taiwan For Semicon Training: Report

Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd (TEPL) has reportedly sent “a couple of hundred” employees to Taiwan to upskill them as it steps up efforts to kick off production for its upcoming INR 91,000 Cr semiconductor fab unit in partnership with Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (PSMC).

The electronics arm of the Tata Group is sending its employees to Taiwan-based PSMC to train them in skills required to operate semiconductor manufacturing facilities, ET reported, citing sources.

TEPL is hiring both freshers and those with experience in the semiconductor industry in batches of around 75 and sending them to Taiwan. These staffers receive training in different operations, including equipment, yield engineering, process technology and quality engineering.

“The number of people going in for training to Taiwan from Tata Electronics has certainly gone up as the company gets closer and is preparing for its fab. Talent is the biggest gap,” a source told the publication.

It is to be noted that TEPL is building two semiconductor manufacturing facilities in India. The company has partnered with PSMC to build India’s first AI-enabled fab facility in Gujarat’s Dholera with an initial investment of INR 91,000 Cr (around $11 Bn).

The fab is expected to have a manufacturing capacity of up to 50,000 wafers per month and will generate over 20,000 direct and indirect skilled jobs in the region.

The upcoming facility will manufacture chips for applications such as power management IC, display drivers, microcontrollers (MCU) and high-performance computing logic, addressing the growing demand in markets such as automotive, computing and data storage, wireless communication and AI.

Additionally, TEPL is setting up an INR 27,000 Cr OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) facility in Assam, which is projected to generate roughly 27,000 direct and indirect jobs. 

The Assam OSAT facility is expected to be operational by mid-2025, with the first chip from the Dholera unit predicted by December 2026, according to union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Tata Electronics is not the only company building a semiconductor unit in India under the Indian Semiconductor Mission. The Centre has also approved a proposal from Micron Technology, which has committed $825 Mn for a semiconductor unit in Sanand, Gujarat.

Mysuru-based Kaynes Semicon has also been granted approval from the union government to set up an OSAT facility in Gujarat with an initial investment of 3,307 Cr. The facility is expected to have a manufacturing capacity of 63 Lakhs chips a day.

As per reports, Kaynes Semicon is planning to deliver India’s first packaged semiconductor chip by July 2025. 

Earlier this year, MeitY secretary S Krishnan said that India’s semiconductor demand is expected to reach $100-110 Bn by 2030 from the current demand of $45–50 Bn.