Design & Reuse

India fab decision likely this quarter

Kariyatil Krishnadas, EETimes
1/22/2013 2:31 PM EST

BANGALORE, India—A decision on the long-pending proposal to set up a domestic wafer fab in India is likely to be made by the end of March, semiconductor industry executives said.

India has been debating building a wafer fab for years. A decision on whether to move forward with a plan to build a fab here had been promised by the end of 2012. But that deadline came and went with no decision made.