Another article from our enlightened Bengali Bhadralok Andy Fu-Kher-jee.
A $10 billion push to make semiconductors in India is on shaky ground. Its collapse will expose a major fault line in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for greater economic self-reliance. Already, influential critics are asking if the much-touted success in becoming a hub for smartphone...
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These people like RR who are already pronouncing the failure of PLI need to realize that even China doesn't do that much of value addition. It's barely 3 years since the scheme launched and the real capacity building started only 1.5-2 years ago. These kinds of schemes need a long gestation period and results wont be apparent at least till 6-7 years. Moreover, It always starts with assembly, nobody is gonna move their whole component ecosystem here in 3 years.
At least for Apple products, here's a rough distribution:
- Accelerometer: Bosch Sensortech, based in Germany with locations in the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
- Audio chips: Cirrus Logic, based in the U.S. with locations in the U.K., China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore
- Battery: Samsung, based in South Korea with locations in 80 countries
- Battery: Sunwoda Electronic, based in China
- Camera: Qualcomm, based in the U.S. with locations in Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and more than a dozen locations through Europe and Latin America
- Camera: Sony, based in Japan with locations in dozens of countries
- Chips for cellular networking: Qualcomm
- Compass: AKM Semiconductor, based in Japan with locations in the U.S., France, England, China, South Korea, and Taiwan
- Glass screen: Corning, based in the U.S., with locations in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, the U.K., and the United Arab Emirates
- Gyroscope: STMicroelectronics. Based in Switzerland, with locations in 35 countries
- Flash memory: Toshiba, based in Japan with locations in over 50 countries
- Flash memory: Samsung
- LCD screen: Sharp, based in Japan with locations in 13 countries
- LCD screen: LG, based in South Korea with locations in Poland and China
- A-series processor: TSMC, based in Taiwan with locations in China, Singapore, and the U.S.
- Touch ID: TSMC and Xintec. Based in Taiwan.
- Touch-screen controller: Broadcom, based in the U.S. with locations in Israel, Greece, the U.K., the Netherlands, Belgium, France, India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea
- Wi-Fi chip: Murata, based in the U.S. with locations in Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, India, Vietnam, The Netherlands, Spain, the U.K., Germany, Hungary, France, Italy, and Finland