{"id":982888,"date":"2026-01-01T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982888"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:06:12","slug":"scale-up-phase-awaits-semicon-ems-companies-as-centre-deepens-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/01\/scale-up-phase-awaits-semicon-ems-companies-as-centre-deepens-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale-up phase awaits semicon, EMS companies as Centre deepens play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India moved from signing memorandums of understanding to setting those plans in motion in the semiconductor space in 2025. While the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 1.0 was about &#8220;attracting the big fish&#8221;, experts said the industry is expecting ISM 2.0 to signal the &#8220;scale-up phase&#8221;, helping India become a credible node in the global silicon value chain. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The coming year will be about functionalising the 2025 investments,&#8221; Ashok Chandak, president of the India Electronics &amp; Semiconductor Association (IESA) and SEMI India, told ET. &#8220;ISM 2.0 will position India as not just a participant but a pillar of the global semiconductor supply chain. It could shift focus from just silicon fabs to display fabs, advanced packaging and specialised chemicals\/gases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India moved from signing memorandums of understanding to setting those plans in motion in the semiconductor space in 2025. While the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 1.0 was about &#8220;attracting the big fish&#8221;, experts said the industry is expecting ISM 2.0 to signal the &#8220;scale-up phase&#8221;, helping India become a credible node in the global silicon value chain. &#8220;The coming year will be about functionalising the 2025 investments,&#8221; Ashok Chandak, president of the India Electronics &amp; Semiconductor Association (IESA) and SEMI India, told ET. &#8220;ISM 2.0 will position India as not just a participant but a pillar of the global semiconductor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}