ROHM and Tata Electronics partner for chip manufacturing in India

Japanese semiconductor company ROHM Co has signed a strategic agreement with Tata Electronics to produce electronic chips in India for both domestic and overseas markets, a joint statement said on Monday, December 22.

Under the partnership, ROHM and Tata Electronics will establish a manufacturing framework for power semiconductors in India by combining ROHM’s leading device technologies with Tata Electronics’ semiconductor assembly and test capabilities.

Randhir Thakur, CEO and MD, Tata Electronics, said, “ROHM brings deep domain expertise to this partnership. Through our semiconductor assembly and test facilities, Tata Electronics will deliver chip packaging services to support ROHM in creating products tailored for Indian and global markets.”

In addition to the manufacturing business, both companies will leverage their sales channels and networks to create new business opportunities in the Indian market.

As the first step in this collaboration, Tata Electronics will assemble and test ROHM’s India-designed automotive-grade Nch 100V, 300A Si MOSFET in a TOLL package, targeting mass production shipments by next year.

“The companies will also explore co-development of high-value packaging technologies in the future. Both companies will combine efforts to market the products manufactured through this collaboration,” the official statement said.

The ROHM–Tata Electronics partnership will aim to build an ecosystem that includes design, development, and manufacturing, all within India.

“Through this partnership, we aim to expand our lineup of packaged products manufactured in India and help build a sustainable, region-based supply chain network…We are confident that this collaboration will enable us to meet the growing demand from Indian customers seeking domestically produced semiconductors. We also envision supplying jointly manufactured products to the global market,” Kazuhide Ino, Member of the Board, Managing Executive Officer, ROHM Co Ltd, said.

Tata Electronics is building India’s first commercial Fab in Dholera, Gujarat, with a total investment of $11 billion, and India’s first indigenous Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility in Jagiroad, Assam, with an investment of $3 billion.

(With inputs from PTI)