Taiwan foundry to produce India-designed semiconductor chip

INDIA might not be a global power in the semiconductor sector, but this did not stop Mindgrove Technologies, a Peak XV Partners-backed fabless semiconductor startup incubated by IIT Madras, to design country's first commercial high-performance system on chip (SoC), which is likely to be manufactured in Taiwan.

-  C SHIVAKUMAR

Also known as microcontrollers, these RISC-V-based chips are found in vehicles, robots, office machines, medical devices, mobile radio transceivers, vending machines and home appliances, among others. With Mindgrove entering the game, Indian Original Equipment Manufacturers can use an Indian chip in their products which is estimated to cost 30% less than others without compromising on high-end features.

"The pandemic revealed the wide gap between high-end and low-end players in the embedded systems space, with the latter prioritizing cost and volume over the chip's actual performance.