Semiconductors and advanced manufacturing
Fabrication and advanced manufacturing projects in India sit inside the India Semiconductor Mission, which administers Semicon 2.0 as notified on 31 August 2026, alongside the production-linked incentive schemes. The legal questions run from whether an applicant meets the revenue and technology conditions at all, through technology transfer and IP protection, to the long-form supply contracts that follow.
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What this covers
- India Semiconductor Mission incentive eligibility and compliance
- PLI scheme structuring and eligibility
- Technology transfer and IP licensing agreements
- Joint venture and co-manufacturing agreements
- Export control and dual-use technology compliance
- Supply chain contract disputes and arbitration
- SEZ and industrial park regulatory questions
- Foreign investment structuring and FEMA compliance
The notes behind these capabilities
Semicon 2.0, notified on 31 August 2026, cut fiscal support for a silicon wafer fab to 40 per cent of eligible capital expenditure from the up to 50 per cent the first programme carried. The percentage is the least of it. An applicant for that pillar must already show minimum capital investment of INR 20,000 crore, revenue of INR 7,500 crore in any of the three financial years before it applies, and production grade technology it owns or licenses. The design pillar adds a condition on who owns and controls the applicant.
India's export control list for dual use items, the Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment and Technologies (SCOMET) list, was revised by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on 23 September 2025, to take effect 30 days after issue. The revision filled Category 7, until then reserved, with emerging technology items, among them advanced chip manufacturing tools for lithography, low temperature epitaxy, deposition and dry etching, while Category 8 keeps the general semiconductor equipment entry. A fab or tool supplier that exports, sends for repair, re-exports or transfers technology for these items needs a DGFT authorisation first, files an end user certificate, and keeps records for at least five years.
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