India, Sept. 19 -- Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday that he is waiting for the first wafer to come out of India's first semiconductor fabrication plant in Dholera in 2028, as he said the country's semiconductor industry had moved from establishing capacity to scaling up production.

During a fireside chat on the second day of Semicon India 2026 in New Delhi, Vaishnaw said he has kept a single nail on a wall in his office empty, waiting for the first wafer to emerge from the Dholera plant.

Five semiconductor ATMP/OSAT (assembly, testing, making and packaging/outsource semiconductor assembly and test) plants out of the 12 selected in the first phase of the government's India Semiconductor Mission have begun comme...