India starts hunt for fab-building chipmakers

Peter Clarke, EETimes
5/31/2011 4:32 AM EDT

LONDON – A committee recently set up by the Indian government to help drive the establishment of semiconductor manufacturing in the sub-continent, has conducted its first meeting and has started approaching chip companies to ask them to set up wafer fabs there.

The meeting discussed a number of issues related to the setting up of wafer fabs, local reports quoted Sam Pitroda, leader of the committee, as saying. Pitroda is also an advisor to Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on IT and communications infrastructure and innovation.

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