104 institutes and organisations selected for chip-to-startup programme

Bhubaneswar, Apr 24 (KNN) India will start its chip-to-startup (C2S) programme to become a global semiconductor hub as it unveiled the Rs 76,000 crore fabrication incentive plan.

A total of 104 institutions and organisations across the country including IIT Bhubaneswar have been selected for the initiative.

It aims to produce 85,000 skilled technocrats at BTech, MTech and PhD levels in the next five years.

Speaking to The New Indian Express on the sidelines of the precursor events ahead of the G20 Education Working Group conference here on Sunday, director (technology) of India Semiconductor Mission Nishit Gupta said the Ministry of Electronics and Information (MeitY) will soon announce the list of institutions that have been selected for the programme.

Its objective was to train high-quality and qualified engineers in the area of very large-scale integration and embedded system design.

Once started, the programme would result in the development of 175 application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), working prototypes of 20 system-on-chips (SoC) and IP core repositories over a period of five years.