More than one lakh engineers from over 500 organisations have been onboarded by the ChipIN Centre under the Centre’s Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme and Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme, the IT Ministry has said.
The 500-plus organisations include 400 academic institutions and 100 startups, which have been given access to advanced chip-design tools, chip-design and fabrication services, and specialised training. Collectively, they have developed more than 300 chip designs for fabrication at foundries in India and abroad, and recorded over four crore hours of chip-design tool usage. The Ministry described the result as the “largest centralised chip-design user base” at the ChipIN Centre.
The DLI Scheme has backed domestic chip-design projects across video surveillance, drone detection, energy meters, microprocessors, satellite communications, broadband and IoT systems-on-chip. The programme is aimed at building a larger pool of skilled chip designers and strengthening the country’s electronic system design capabilities.
The onboarding figure was shared around SEMICON India 2026. Under the wider Semicon India Programme, 12 semiconductor projects have been approved across six states, with investment commitments exceeding Rs 1.64 lakh crore, and three facilities have already commenced commercial production.
