India Semicon Policy: Nation Moved From Vision To Execution Now, Says Micron Chief
Mehrotra said that for the last seven years, the company has employed more than 7,000 people in India directly and its work supports tens of thousands more jobs across the value chain
New Delhi: Micron chief executive Sanjay Mehrotra said on Thursday that India's semiconductor policy push has given the industry a strong foundation it didn't have, and the nation has moved from vision to execution now. “For decades, people have talked about India's semiconductor potential. I have been in many of those conversations. Potential does not ship products. What I see in India today is execution,” Mehrotra said, while speaking at the SEMICON India 2026 here.
Mehrotra said that for the last seven years, the company has employed more than 7,000 people in India directly and its work supports tens of thousands more jobs across the value chain. “Earlier this year, we began commercial production at Sanand, Gujarat. It is the first semiconductor assembly and test facility here in India and the first project under the India semiconductor mission. Finished DRAM and NAND products are now leaving Gujarat for customers around the world carrying a label this country has waited a long time to put on a memory chip - the Made in India,” he said.
The Micron chief said that the current production capacity already exceeds the memory required for India's entire laptop market. “The India Semiconductor Mission and now ISM 2.0 gave this industry a foundation it did not have before,” he added.
