Semi-Conductor Laboratory to offer fab support to chip design startups

India’s first chip fabrication unit Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali, is set to offer end-to-end support, including fabrication, testing, and packaging, to chip design startups in the country. This assumes significance as currently fabless startups have to tap global foundries to get even limited samples of chips before actual production can start. This not only incurs huge costs but also limits their ability to do failure analysis, testing and identify any challenges in manufacturing or assembly first hand.