Tata Electronics has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with US-based chip design firm Synopsys to collaborate in process technology, and a foundry design platform at the fab facility being built in Dholera, Gujarat. The key partnership will help the company serve across the semiconductor ecosystem and accelerating its way to targets as the first to bring semiconductor manufacturing to India.

Together, the two companies will collaborate in areas like technology computer-aided design flow setup, process design kits and design enablement, intellectual property development including foundation and analogue intellectual property, and design technology co-optimisation methodologies. Tata Electronics last year announced plans to build India’s first fab in Dholera, Gujarat, with a total investment of Rs 91,000 crore.

In addition, the company is also investing another Rs 27,000 crore in a greenfield facility in Jagiroad, Assam, for the assembly and testing of semiconductor chips. Hence, the chip design technolgy will be utilised in the upcoming facilities in Gujarat and Assam. Together, these facilities will produce semiconductor chips for  automotive, mobile devices, artificial intelligence (AI), and other key segments.

Earlier this year, Synopsys inaugurated a semiconductor chip design centre at DLF Tech Park in Noida, Uttar Pradesh and is the second-largest design centre in India by the company.