Design & Reuse

Could India's Analog Wafer Fab be Moving South?

Peter Clarke, EETimes
7/3/2015 11:55 AM EDT

LONDON — Cricket Semiconductor, a company set up with the purpose of building and operating $1 billion analog and power semiconductor wafer fab in India has been in talks with state government of Telangana, according to a report in the New Indian Express.

The report quoted KT Rama Rao, the state's Minister of IT & Communications as its source.

The talks come after Cricket Semiconductor had signed a memorandum of understanding with government of the state of Madhya Pradesh to work towards setting up an analog fab in that state. Madhya Pradesh, capital Bhopal, is a few hundred miles north of Telangana, capital Hyderabad.