SCL facelift: Rs 2,000-crore tender soon to improve existing fabrication

As part of modernisation of Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) Mohali, the government has cleared a Rs 2,000-crore funding plan for the chip unit to improve its existing 180 nanometre (nm) fabrication line, people in the know said.

This means that the country’s first chip fabrication unit would first go through the process of augmentation wherein new tools will be added, decades-old equipment will be replaced and any kind of redundancies in chip fabrication line will be removed.