Biden, Modi Announce Plans for a New Chip Plant in India
- Plant to manufacture chips including infrared, gallium nitride
- Narendra Modi is visiting the US for the annual Quad summit
President Joe Biden and Narendra Modi in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sept. 21.
Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
The US and India reached an agreement to work together on setting up a semiconductor fabrication plant in the South Asian nation, giving a boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to bolster manufacturing in the country.
The proposed plant will make infrared, gallium nitride and silicon-carbide semiconductors, according to a White House readout that followed a meeting between the US President Joe Biden and Modi in Delaware on Saturday. The setting up of the facility will be enabled by support from the India Semiconductor Mission as well as a “strategic technology partnership between Bharat Semi, 3rdiTech Inc, and the U.S. Space Force,” according to the readout.