India building commercial silicon fab with 50,000 per month wafer production capacity: Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

India is building a commercial-scale silicon-based fabrication facility (fab) that will churn out 50,000 wafer starts per month, even as such fabs usually operate at 20,000-40,000 wafer starts per month, electronics and information technology (IT) minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday.

The minister was referring to the Rs 91,000 crore fab being built by Tata Electronics in Gujarat’s Dholera, which was approved in February last year.

In semiconductor manufacturing, a wafer is a thin, circular slice of a crystalline semiconductor material, most…