India’s semiconductor policy push gave industry strong foundation: Micron CEO

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said India's semiconductor policy push has given the industry a strong foundation and helped the country move from vision to execution. He highlighted Micron's commercial production at Sanand and its growing workforce in India.

New Delhi: India’s semiconductor policy push has given the industry a strong foundation it did not have, and the nation has moved from vision to execution now, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said on Thursday.

“For decades, people have talked about India’s semiconductor potential. I have been in many of those conversations. Potential does not ship products. What I see in India today is execution,” Mehrotra said, speaking at the SEMICON India 2026 inaugural.

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Micron has been here for seven years, he said, adding that the company employs more than 7,000 people in India directly and its work supports tens of thousands more jobs across the value chain.

“Earlier this year, we began commercial production at Sanand, Gujarat. It is the first semiconductor assembly and test facility here in India and the first project under the India Semiconductor Mission…finished DRAM and NAND products are now leaving Gujarat for customers around the world carrying a label this country has waited a long time to put on a memory chip – the Made in India,” he said.

The current production capacity already exceeds the memory required for India’s entire laptop market, the Micron CEO said.

“The India Semiconductor Mission and now ISM 2.0 gave this industry a foundation it did not have before,” he added.