India's first commercial chip cluster

The semiconductor fab is the anchor that changed how Dholera is talked about, from a long-promised smart city to India's first commercial chip cluster. This section covers the whole thing, sourced: the Rs 91,000 crore Tata Electronics investment, the PSMC and ASML partnerships behind the technology, the 66-hectare semiconductor SEZ the Centre notified, and the India Semiconductor Mission support that made it viable. The approvals, the investment and the capacity are durable, government-sourced facts. The dates, first trial silicon and commercial production, are targets, and targets in fab construction move, so we keep them labelled as targets. Pick a topic below for the detail, and read it knowing what is confirmed and what is still a plan. That distinction is the whole point: the fab is real and under construction, but a fab is measured in years, so the value for a company evaluating Dholera is in tracking the transitions from announced to built rather than reacting to each headline. The ecosystem the fab pulls in, suppliers, cleanroom services, packaging, test and skilled talent, is often what matters most to a firm that is not itself a chipmaker.

How this page is sourced

Everything on this site is held to one standard so you can trust it enough to act on. Every figure is tagged by where it comes from: green for government or official sources, amber for national or trade press, and red for broker or unverified claims, which we flag rather than repeat as fact. Every figure carries a date, because Dholera moves and a number that was right last year may not hold now. Anything framed as a future event, an opening, a first chip, a completion, stays labelled as a target until a government source confirms it happened. We do not sell plots, we do not publish invented reviews or registration numbers, and where a fact is not reliably available we say so instead of guessing. The full method and the primary sources are on the sources and methodology page.

Read the tags as a confidence meter. A green figure is something you can plan against today. An amber figure is credible but worth confirming before you build a decision on it. A red figure is a claim we are showing you so that you can recognise it, not one we stand behind. When two sources disagree, we say so and show the more authoritative one rather than averaging them into a number that is nobody's actual figure. The point of all of this is simple: you should be able to act on what you read here, and check any of it yourself, without wondering whether a number was quietly invented to make the picture look better than it is.