Homegrown CDIL's Mohali Packaging Line Push To India's Chip Advancements: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

CDIL's facility in Mohali has been expanded and the company has said it will be the first such company in the country to make silicon carbide devices.

With Continental Device India Private Limited (CDIL) becoming the first homegrown company to start production of silicon carbide devices for electric vehicles (EVs) in India, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that Mohali is on track to become another semiconductor hub in the country. CDIL is the country's oldest semiconductor assembly and packaging firm. CDIL has just started the production of silicon carbide devices through surface mount technology (SMT) from its manufacturing plant in Mohali, the media has reported.

The MoS, IT, virtually inaugurated the new Surface Mount Semiconductor Packaging Line at CDIL’s plant in Mohali, Punjab.

“Inaugurated and witnessed the growth plan of CDIL at their new cutting-edge surface mount semiconductor packaging line and high-reliability testing lab setup through support of the IT Ministry’s SPECS scheme,” he Chandrasekhar posted on X.

“Congratulations to CDIL for adding new capacity of 50 million units, making its total annual production capacity over 550 million units,” the MoS IT noted.

CDIL's facility has been expanded and the company has said it will be the first such company in the country to make silicon carbide devices. The facility will make 100 million devices a year, with an investment of Rs 30 crore, taking the total production scale to 600 million devices, says a report by Mint.

The homegrown company is already producing a wide range of electronic components, including transistors, diodes, rectifiers, MOSFETs, voltage regulators, and other discrete semiconductor devices, the minister informed.

CDIL also signed an MoU with the Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), a research institute in Mohali under the IT Ministry, to make Mohali the end-to end semiconductor hub in the country. In just 15 months’ time, India has seen the construction of its first-ever semiconductor plant in Sanand, Gujarat, received more manufacturing proposals along with 8 chip designing startups now operational in the country. The first India-made chip from the Rs 22,500 crore Micron plant in Sanand is likely to arrive in December 2024.