India collected $11 billion to $12 billion in fresh semiconductor investment proposals during SEMICON India 2026, the government's second annual industry conference in New Delhi. The commitments span design centers, fabrication facilities, outsourced assembly and test plants, and materials suppliers. Applied Materials, ASML, and a roster of Asian equipment vendors signaled intent to localize supply chains. The proposals, if executed, would create an estimated 95,000 to 100,000 jobs across engineering, cleanroom operations, and procurement roles by the end of fiscal 2028.
The capital follows Delhi's $10 billion Production-Linked Incentive scheme launched in December 2021, which covers up to 50 percent of project costs for approved fabs and OSAT facilities. Tata Electronics' $14 billion greenfield fab in Dholera, Gujarat, and its OSAT plant in Jagiroad, Assam, anchor the current pipeline. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma used the conference to pitch the Jagiroad site, which targets commissioning in the second half of 2025. The state is positioning itself as a lower-cost alternative to Maharashtra and Karnataka for back-end assembly, leveraging land parcels near Guwahati airport and a 15-year property tax holiday.
The $11-12 billion figure represents a second wave distinct from the Tata-led commitments already in motion. Conversations on the conference floor centered on photoresist chemicals, ultra-pure water systems, and specialty gases—upstream inputs that India currently imports at an annual run rate near $3.5 billion. ASML's participation signals potential for deep-ultraviolet lithography tool support, a precursor to any node below 28 nanometers. The Dutch toolmaker has not yet committed to a service hub, but its presence at a government-sponsored event marks a shift from the cautious distance it maintained during India's first semiconductor push in the mid-2000s.
For allocators, the implications split into two parts. First, India is no longer a design-services story. It is building physical capacity that will compete with Malaysia and Vietnam for OSAT share and with China's trailing-edge fabs for automotive and industrial chips. Second, the capital is flowing to equipment and materials suppliers, not the fabs themselves. That means the investable angle sits upstream—think Tokyo Electron, Entegris, and regional gas distributors—rather than in the semiconductor manufacturers. The government's 50-percent subsidy effectively de-risks the builders while creating a guaranteed equipment order book.
Watch for Tata's Dholera construction milestones between now and mid-2026. Any delay past the announced 2026 commissioning window will ripple through the supply chain and push out the second-tier fab proposals. Also track ASML's next move: a committed service center or training facility would validate India's ambition to move beyond 28-nanometer nodes. Finally, monitor customs duty adjustments on semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Delhi has floated proposals to zero out import duties for approved projects, which would accelerate the $11-12 billion pipeline and compress timelines by six to nine months.
The 95,000-job figure assumes each billion dollars of capex generates roughly 8,000 roles, a ratio consistent with Samsung's Vietnam expansion and TSMC's Arizona build. If the proposals convert at a 70-percent rate—Delhi's historical approval ratio for large industrial projects—India will add $7.7 billion to $8.4 billion in deployed semiconductor capital by fiscal 2029, enough to claim a low-single-digit share of global OSAT capacity and a foothold in 28-nanometer logic. The equipment orders start flowing in fiscal Q2 2025.
The takeaway
$11-12B in new semiconductor proposals position India as a credible OSAT and trailing-edge fab alternative by 2028.
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