On 13 March 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for India's first semiconductor fabrication plant at Dholera — the anchor industry the corridor was planned around.
The fab is a Tata Electronics venture with Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (PSMC): a ₹91,000 crore investment, capacity for up to 50,000 wafers a month, and more than 20,000 direct and indirect jobs.
It was one of three semiconductor facilities — about ₹1.25 lakh crore in all — whose foundations were laid that day under the programme "India's Techade: Chips for Viksit Bharat". The Dholera ceremony was attended by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Tata Sons chairman N. Chandrasekaran and Tata Electronics' Dr Randhir Thakur.
A fab does not arrive alone. Anchor industry pulls in suppliers, jobs, housing and services — the demand base a greenfield city needs to become a real one.
Source: PMO — pmindia.gov.in, DD News, Tata.