India, Sept. 17 -- Under the recently approved Semicon 2.0 mission, the Central government is seeing investment commitments worth approximately Rs.1 Lakh Cr ($11-12 Bn), union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said during his address at Semicon India 2026.

Global players across capital equipment, materials, specialty gases, and advanced packaging have pledged to deploy this capital over the next 2-3 years as India scales up its domestic electronics value chain, the minister said.

The estimates are based on the minister's discussions with the companies, some of whom are yet to make their investment plans public. Notably, US-based semiconductor company Applied Materials announced a $5 Bn (about Rs.48,000 Cr) investment commitment earlier today. ...