Tata Electronics is sending its employees to Taiwan, as per The Economic Times.
As per the reports, the training is part of Tata’s plans for its semiconductor fabrication (fab) and assembly and test (OSAT) facility. The upcoming fabrications plant in Dholera, Gujarat, will require several trained specialists, and Tata has already sent “a couple of hundred” of its workers to Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) of Taiwan.
The move comes after Tata Electronics and PSMC completed the Definitive agreement in September 2024. The agreement stated that “PSMC will provide design and construction support to build India’s first AI-enabled state-of-the-art greenfield Fab in Gujarat, license a broad portfolio of technologies and provide engineering support to successfully transfer licensed technologies to the Gujarat Fab. ”
With the opening of the Dholera facility growing closer, Tata is focusing on sending more and more of its employees to PSMC to close the talent gap. As per an ET source, the number of people PSMC can train at a time is limited to about 50 to 75. As such, Tata is taking a methodical approach and is seemingly hiring people in batches of 75. Each one of these groups is meant for “distinct operations like equipment, yield engineering, process technology and another on quality engineering.”
During the March 2024 ground-breaking ceremony of the Dholera facility, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwani Vaishnaw, claimed that the facility will produce its first chip by December 2026. This will be in line with the Tata’s OSAT facility in Assam, which is expected to be operational by mid-2025.
In a bid to strengthen its talent gap and be prepared for the upcoming semiconductor manufacturing operations, Tata Electronics is strengthening its leadership by hiring from global semiconductor companies. With thousands of new jobs that will emerge thanks to the Dholera and Assam plant, Tata electronics is putting its best foot forward for hiring and training its talent.