Ahmedabad, February 28: During his visit to Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took initiatives towards making India a global semiconductor hub. On Saturday, the Prime Minister inaugurated Micron Technology’s state-of-the-art assembly, testing, marketing and packaging (ATMP) plant. With the opening of this plant, the production of the country’s first ‘Make in India’ chip will begin in Gujarat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Micron Technology’s state-of-the-art ATMP plant today after holding a road show in Sanand’s GIDC. Micron Semiconductor Technology India Private Limited has invested approximately ₹22,516 crore in this project. The plant will manufacture storage devices such as SSDs and DRAM and NAND memory products. Currently, approximately two thousand people are employed here, which will increase to five thousand in the future. Significantly, this project also provides employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
According to Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, in the era of artificial intelligence, the demand for advanced memory and storage is rapidly increasing. These chips manufactured in Sanand will play a vital role in meeting the global needs of AI technology.