Vedanta and Foxconn are to invest 1.54tn rupees ($19.5bn) in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat to build one of India’s first semiconductor manufacturing complexes — part of a high-stakes, government-backed push to build domestic chipmaking capacity.The Indian mining and industrial group and the Taiwanese contract manufacturer chose Gujarat over neighbouring Maharashtra, which was also vying for the business, for their joint venture. Vedanta’s chair Anil Agarwal said it would bring “India’s own Silicon Valley . . . a step closer now”.
印度礦業及工業集團Vedanta和臺灣代工製造商富士康(Foxconn)將在印度總理納倫德拉•莫迪(Narendra Modi)的家鄉古加拉特邦(Gujarat)投資1.54兆盧比(合195億美元),興建印度首批半導體制造綜合體之一——這是推動印度國內晶片製造產能建設的投入巨大的努力的一部分,這項努力得到印度政府的支持。