Vedanta and Foxconn are to invest 1.54tn rupees ($19.5bn) in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat to build one of India’s first semiconductor manufacturing complexes — part of a high-stakes, government-backed push to build domestic chipmaking capacity.The Indian mining and industrial group and the Taiwanese contract manufacturer chose Gujarat over neighbouring Maharashtra, which was also vying for the business, for their joint venture. Vedanta’s chair Anil Agarwal said it would bring “India’s own Silicon Valley . . . a step closer now”.
印度矿业及工业集团Vedanta和台湾代工制造商富士康(Foxconn)将在印度总理纳伦德拉•莫迪(Narendra Modi)的家乡古吉拉特邦(Gujarat)投资1.54万亿卢比(合195亿美元),兴建印度首批半导体制造综合体之一——这是推动印度国内芯片制造产能建设的投入巨大的努力的一部分,这项努力得到印度政府的支持。