Intel, 3DGS to set up $3.3 billion substrate plant in Odisha

US chipmaker Intel and 3DGS Inc. USA will invest about $3.3 billion to set up a substrate manufacturing plant in the ‌eastern ⁠Indian state ⁠of Odisha, the Indian government said on Friday.

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The ​project is expected to create more than 1,800 direct high-skilled ​jobs.


Substrates are ⁠the bedrock ‌material on which ​elements ​of a semiconductor device ⁠are attached.

New Delhi has pledged ​billions of dollars in ​subsidies to attract semiconductor plants and related manufacturing as a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wider push ‌to build more products locally.

The plant, planned to be set up ⁠in the Bhubaneswar-Khurda region over a period of five to six years, will focus on advanced packaging glass core substrates, high-density interconnect substrates and associated semiconductor technologies.