“We’re undoubtedly the primary in India, to design 3 nm automotive chips,” Malini Narayanamoorthi, India nation supervisor and VP of Renesas, advised ET.
The three nm chip is without doubt one of the smallest, quickest, and most superior chips globally.
Within the context of electronics design, to “tape out” means to finalise and submit the entire design of an built-in circuit (IC) or printed circuit board (PCB) to a foundry (a semiconductor manufacturing plant) to start the manufacturing course of.
The pattern chips are already being supplied to companions, whereas a industrial launch date isn’t dedicated but, Narayanamoorthi mentioned.
Renesas is partnering with Murugappa group’s CG Power to construct an outsourced semiconductor meeting and take a look at (OSAT) facility in Sanand.
In Could this 12 months, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had mentioned Renesas could be India’s first design centre to work on cutting-edge 3 nm chip design. “Designing at 3nm is really next-generation. We’ve executed 7 nm and 5 nm earlier, however this marks a brand new frontier,” he had mentioned.
British semiconductor company ARM’s new Bengaluru facility may also give attention to designing cutting-edge chips, together with superior two-nanometre (2 nm) nodes, Vaishnaw had mentioned on Tuesday.
Renesas holds a minority stake (under 7%) in CG Semi, a three way partnership with CG Energy and Stars Microelectronics, Thailand, which is establishing the OSAT facility in Sanand.
Past funding, it is usually set to develop into an anchor buyer for CG Semi’s deliberate “mini” and “main” chip packaging crops, though precise consumption particulars are nonetheless being decided as a part of an inner qualification course of, Narayanamoorthi advised ET.
“It received’t be simply us as prospects—they’ll work with different potential prospects too who’ve OSAT necessities,” she clarified, noting that qualification and manufacturing ramp-up are underway for the mini plant.
Regardless of world semiconductor headwinds and ongoing US-China tensions, Renesas’ India enterprise has continued to develop in 2024 and 2025, she mentioned.
Whereas the influence of recent tariffs continues to be “up within the air,” Narayanamoorthi mentioned Renesas management “believes in Renesas India,” and enlargement plans stay on monitor.
She mentioned the agency’s India workforce has doubled to almost 800 previously 12 months, with plans underway to additional develop in the direction of a 1,000-member group. The Japanese main is tapping India’s deep engineering expertise, aiming for the nation to contribute 10% of its world income by 2030.
Within the Sanand OSAT, Renesas and its companions every would carry differentiated packaging applied sciences—together with QFP and BGA packages—to the three way partnership.
Narayanamoorthi mentioned know-how transfers, whereas advanced, are supported by a shared dedication to cross-border collaboration. Bridging Japanese, Indian, and Thai work cultures is “pure in right now’s globalised world,” she mentioned, including that Renesas operates in over 30 international locations.
Whereas Renesas helps native expertise coaching and companions actively on the JV degree, the corporate at the moment has no energetic plans to carry its personal fabrication or OSAT amenities to India, she mentioned. “Now we have each fabs in addition to OSATs in largely the east of the world,” she added.
Renesas operates wafer fabrication (foundry) crops primarily in Japan, together with Naka, Takasaki, Saijo, Kawashiri, and the newer Kofu facility.
At present, Renesas engineering groups lend assist to CG Semi, and cross-training is predicted to happen organically via the partnership.
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