Ashwini Vaishnaw launches 2 nm semiconductor chip in Qualcomm in Bengaluru

Ashwini Vaishnaw launched Qualcomm 2 nm semiconductor chip, marking a significant moment in advanced semiconductor design and India’s Key Role in Global Engineering Operations yesterday. The minister delivered a keynote address and said - “I am very happy to see this progress. The entire world is looking at us with hope because of the huge talent we have in our country. The next level of achievement will come from India”.

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw said “We can make a big difference in the entire global community. We are a country which believes in co-creating and co-developing. The decisive leadership of our Hon’ble Prime Minister has given us this whole new chapter of semiconductor mission in our country”. The story started way back in 1960s when Intel's origin, the Fairchild group wanted to set up a semiconductor unit in India. But the government of that period never really understood the importance of semiconductor chips.

Our Hon’ble Prime Minister understood the importance and started the first semiconductor machine. We took a measured program of getting first few units up and running and have at least one semiconductor fab. We started with 28 nanometre as it would cover about 75% of the needs, ranging from automotive, telecom, power management and strategic requirements.

The minister added that we have made a good progress - 10 units are under construction. 4 of them started pilot production recently. They are getting their products qualified, validated with the customers and soon we will have the first unit with commercial production.