{"id":992060,"date":"2026-02-14T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992060"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:26:04","slug":"us-chipmaker-kla-to-invest-%e2%82%b93600-cr-in-tamil-nadu-for-global-rd-campus-signs-mou-with-state-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/us-chipmaker-kla-to-invest-%e2%82%b93600-cr-in-tamil-nadu-for-global-rd-campus-signs-mou-with-state-government\/","title":{"rendered":"US chipmaker KLA to invest \u20b93,600 cr in Tamil Nadu for global R&amp;D campus, signs MoU with state government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based semiconductor firm KLA on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu government to invest $400 million (around \u20b93,600 crore) to set up a global research and development and innovation campus in Chennai, the state industries minister said. The proposed 12-acre facility is expected to create up to 4,000 high-skilled jobs and will focus on advanced research in high-performance computing, process control engineering software and AI-driven semiconductor innovation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKLA, which is one of the BIG 3 in Semiconductor manufacturing design and R&amp;D, has today signed an MoU with Guidance Tamil Nadu to invest $400 million (about Rs. 3,600 crore), to establish its global R&amp;D and Innovation Campus in Chennai,\u201d said Dr T R B Rajaa in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based semiconductor firm KLA on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu government to invest $400 million (around \u20b93,600 crore) to set up a global research and development and innovation campus in Chennai, the state industries minister said. The proposed 12-acre facility is expected to create up to 4,000 high-skilled jobs and will focus on advanced research in high-performance computing, process control engineering software and AI-driven semiconductor innovation. \u201cKLA, which is one of the BIG 3 in Semiconductor manufacturing design and R&amp;D, has today signed an MoU with Guidance Tamil Nadu to invest $400 million (about Rs. [&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-992060","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\/992060","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=992060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}