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Gyana Ranjan Swain

New Delhi: A 19-member team from the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) visited India to explore partnerships in chip design and embedded software with Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA). Recognising India's core strengths in the areas of semiconductor triple play, major Taiwanese chip and electronic hardware manufacturers have shown interest in building partnership with Indian firms in meeting their requirements on long-term basis. 

During a panel discussion in STMicroelectronics campus in Greater Noida, between TSIA and the India Semiconductor Association (ISA) on "Opportunities and areas of cooperation between India and Taiwan," TSIA was quite clear that in the absence of an ecosystem and industry infrastructure for setting up manufacturing units, including fabs in India, Taiwanese firms would be ready to tap the IC design and embedded software development skills of Indian engineers for innovating and developing new technologies and products. 

"Taiwan is an established manufacturing hub in the semiconductor industry, and we see a great potential to outsource a host of requirements ranging from chip design, testing, packaging and embedded software to developing IPs from our Indian counterparts," said, Paul Chiang, VP, Nanya Technology. 

James P. M. Chen, VP, Sales center, Winbond Electronics, a leading Taiwanese semiconductor said his company would be willing to invest in India or collaborate with Indian firms to build a R&D facility as there is no dearth of quality designers in India. 

Lauding TSIA initiatives to foster partnerships with Indian firms, Alok Kumar, MD, CoWare said this panel discussuion would definitely lead both ISA and TSIA to greater heights in chip design. 

This is the second panel discussuion between TSIA and ISA in this week, the previous one being held in Bangalore. The TSIA delegation, includes T. Y Wu, president, TSIA, Powerchip Semiconductor vice-president Eric Tang, Nanya Technology vice-president Paul Chiang, Etron Technology vice-president Yung-Ching Hsieh, Synopsys Taiwan strategic sales manager Robert Li and James P. M. Chen. 

According to Frost & Sullivan, the Indian semiconductor industry will have the potential to generate around Rs. 896,980 crore in 2015, as compared to Rs. 63,100 crore in 2005, with prospects to employ around 3.6 million people by 2015. Though India is still a nominal player in semiconductor manufacturing, the study forecasts Indian firms to generate Rs. 20,624 crore ($4.5 billion) revenue by 2015.