The desk
The answer desk
Published 3 August 2026. Facts verified to 27 July 2026 unless dated otherwise.
The questions this desk is asked constantly, answered from named sources with their dates, including the parts that remain unresolved.
Five questions this desk is asked constantly, answered from named sources with dates attached. Each carries FAQPage structured data so the answer can be quoted directly.
The questions
Which companies are investing in Dholera?
The confirmed list with its instruments, the announced list with its sources and dates, and the evidence hierarchy between them.
How many jobs will the Tata fab create?
About 21,000 is cited for the notified SEZ. What that figure covers, what it does not, and what remains unpublished.
Is the Tata fab in Dholera or Sanand?
Front end at Dholera, back end at Sanand, roughly 100 km apart. The confusion is constant and consequential.
Who actually runs Dholera: DSIRDA or DICDL?
The statute, the planning authority, the delivery SPV and its 51-49 shareholding, and which body owns which decision.
What does Dholera mean for the India Semiconductor Mission?
The flagship project sets the programme's cost of capital. What success or slippage would signal for every other approval.
Which chips will the Dholera fab make?
The stated product families, the nodes behind them, and everything about the mix that is still unannounced.
Who supplies the Tata Dholera fab?
Every supplier relationship on the public record, tiered, plus the large parts of the supplier map that are still unpublished.
When will the Dholera fab open?
Three meanings of open, the only guidance that is actually sourced, and the scoreboard this desk will use.
How much does a semiconductor fab cost?
What a fab actually costs, what the money is spent on, and how the Dholera figure compares with sourced global projects.
Why was Dholera chosen for the fab?
The siting logic behind India's first commercial fab, read from land records, state policy and utility milestones rather than from a decision memo nobody has published.
Is 90nm technology outdated?
The rehabilitation answer: what 90nm silicon does in 2026, why the node persists commercially, and where it genuinely limits the Dholera fab's early customer set.
What is PSMC?
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation explained: origins, fab base, business model, the JSMC venture in Japan and what it is contracted to do at Dholera.
What is an OSAT?
Outsourced assembly and test explained properly, set against ATMP, IDM and foundry, with every approved Indian back-end plant listed by date and current status.
How many semiconductor projects are approved in India?
The count, date-stamped, with the full approved list by company, state, type and investment.
Which Indian states have semiconductor projects?
The state map of India's approved semiconductor plants, with the money each state actually holds.
Will India make advanced chips below 28nm?
The honest forward answer on sub-28nm fabrication in India, and the design work already below that line.
What is a mature node in semiconductors?
The definition, the 28nm boundary, and how to read node numbers without being misled.
When will India make its first chip?
India already fabricates chips. The real question is when commercial-scale output begins, and the only attributable guidance is mid-2028.
How big is the Dholera fab?
Size in four dimensions: capital, wafer capacity, land and jobs, with the figures that are public and the ones that are not.
Who will buy the Dholera fab's chips?
No customer has been named. What the stated product set implies about buyers, how qualification works, and why the first named customer matters most.
Is the Dholera fab delayed?
Delayed against what baseline? The December 2026 talk was never supported. Mid-2028 commercial production is the scoreable target.
What is a semiconductor SEZ?
What SEZ status legally confers on a chip plant, what the June 2025 rule changes altered, and the limits of the regime.
Who is funding the Dholera fab?
The capital stack behind India's first commercial fab, instrument by instrument, with the parts that are not public marked.
Will Indian fabs make AI chips?
The hype-control answer on AI chips: what India's approved plants can make, what they cannot, and where the adjacency is real.
What is the India Semiconductor Mission budget?
The money answer: the first-phase framework, the Semicon 2.0 outlay, the annual budget line, and an honest international comparison.
How these answers are written
Answer first, then the evidence. Every one opens with a self-contained response that can be read or quoted on its own, followed by the sourcing, the dates and the parts of the question that remain genuinely unresolved. Where a number is disputed between sources, the dispute is shown rather than averaged away, and where nothing reliable exists the answer says so. The full method is on the editorial standards page.