ISA brings out fab blueprint

BANGALORE: Industry body, Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) will be making available a blueprint for building fabrication plant in India. Speaking exclusively to CyberMedia News, Poornima Shenoy, ISA's president said that the blueprint would be available next week to any state government interesting in exploring opportunities to set up semiconductor manufacturing facilities.

The blueprint contains details of the kind of land, water, power requirements that a fab entails, and also legislation details that would be favorable for the industry.

ISA has recommended legislations like a 100 percent tax holiday for ten years for manufacturing units operating inside fab city; incentives for expenditure on R&D activities and exemption from payment of dividend distribution tax. Shenoy said that Southern states Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh were keenly exploring possibilities for setting up fabs.

Dr June Min of NanoTech Silicon India who announced plans of setting up a semiconductor fab in Andhra Pradesh, is still waiting funding, she said.
Dayanidhi Maran, Union communications and information technology minister, has been urging various states to look at setting up “fab cities.”

A fab city would entail the allotment of around 1500 acres of land with adequate and uninterrupted power, water and infrastructure facilities. Chip company AMD recently announced a tie-up with SemIndia to bring fab manufacturing to India.