Hindustan Times reported on 6 May 2026 that the Union Cabinet had cleared the last two semiconductor units under the first phase of the India Semiconductor Mission, with a combined investment of Rs 3,936 crore. The projects will be funded under the Rs 76,000 crore outlay approved for the mission launched in 2022. Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said both facilities would be set up in Gujarat. With these approvals, the initial slate under the mission reached 12 units, with cumulative investments of around Rs 1.64 lakh crore. The larger approval is the Rs 3,068 crore Crystal Matrix project at Dholera, positioned around the shift from mature liquid crystal display technology to next-generation micro light-emitting diode displays. The facility will manufacture gallium nitride wafers used in mini and micro light-emitting diode displays, along with advanced assembly, testing, marking and packaging. These components are used in large video walls, augmented and virtual reality systems, studio production, and specialised defence and medical displays. The 60-acre plant is expected to produce 72,000 square metres of display panels annually, along with 24,000 sets of red-green-blue gallium nitride wafers, and create about 1,600 direct jobs. Its packaging unit is likely within 18 months, while the compound semiconductor fabrication facility may take around three years. The second approval is Suchi Semicon's Rs 868 crore outsourced semiconductor assembly and test facility at Surat. It will make lead frames and wire-bond packages used in electronics, with annual capacity of 67.3 crore small-outline integrated circuits and 36 crore transistor-outline packages. Production there is expected within eight to 10 months and may create around 630 direct jobs.