New Delhi, March 30 -- About 10 per cent of global manufacturing by US-based semiconductor major Micron will take place in India as its memory plant ramps up production, Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Monday, adding that the facility will help address the global surge in demand for memory chips driven by AI data centres.

He said India's first memory semiconductor facility by Micron Technology began commercial production recently and is expanding rapidly.

"The first memory plant was started in February at Micron plant, which will be meeting a large percentage of their global manufacturing in India. About 10% of their global manufacturing will happen in this plant.," Vaishnaw said.

"The commercial producti...