Chip firms tap Gujarat for free trade zone, shared warehouse

Semiconductor equipment makers, memory storage suppliers and companies that specialise in chip packaging and testing have approached the Gujarat government, requesting setting up of an exclusive free trade zone and shared warehousing infrastructure for the sector, people in the know told ET.

These companies include Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA, Micron, Kaynes Semicon and CG Semi. They are establishing, or supplying equipment for, large semiconductor and related facilities in Gujarat, especially at the industrial belt of Sanand and Dholera where Tata Electronics is setting up India’s first fabrication plant.