On April 16, 2026, PIB announced that the Government of India had formally notified the country's first semiconductor fabrication plant — being set up by Tata Semiconductor Manufacturing Private Limited at the Dholera Special Economic Zone in Gujarat. The notified facility will sit on 66.166 hectares within Dholera, attract an investment of approximately ₹91,000 crore, and is projected to generate around 21,000 jobs in front-end semiconductor manufacturing. This marks India's formal entry into the most capital-intensive and technology-dense segment of the chip value chain — actual fabrication — moving beyond the assembly, testing, marking and packaging (ATMP) units that have been the country's prior footprint. The notification is enabled by recent SEZ Rule amendments (2025) that lowered the minimum land requirement from 50 to 10 hectares, introduced flexible encumbrance norms, allowed Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) sales with applicable duties, and counted free-of-cost supplies in Net Foreign Exchange (NFE) calculations. The Dholera fab will be an AI-enabled facility and forms part of a broader semiconductor ecosystem that includes Micron Technology's ₹13,000 crore ATMP facility in Gujarat, Aequs Group's electronics cluster in Karnataka, and OSAT expansions by CG Semi and Kaynes Semicon. Together, these moves are central to India's ambition under the India Semiconductor Mission to build sovereign manufacturing capacity and reduce import dependence in critical electronics.