Indian fabs, the free market and central planning
By Peter Clarke, EEtimes Europe
April 20, 2016
Over the next year will be an interesting test of two opposites in political thinking applied to the creation of wafer fabs.
There are currently plans to construct three semiconductor wafer fabs in India. Two of the fabs are meant to be built at the behest of the Indian government but with private consortia as the actuators, while one is a free market initiative being put together by a couple of experienced semiconductor industry executives.
And now, afters years of bureaucratic sclerosis and in activity one of the state organized consortia has started to break up with the pull out of anchor partner Jai Prakash Associates, which was also meant to be the money bags for the project to which IBM and Tower Semiconductors would provide IP and services in kind.
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