CDIL 1st Indian firm to make silicon carbide chips, starts unit in Mohali

Continental Device India Pvt Ltd (CDIL) on Thursday said it has become the first company to start producing Silicon Carbide devices — used in electric vehicles (EV) and power electronics — in India. It opened a new semiconductor packaging line at its Mohali plant, taking its annual manufacturing capacity to 600 million units.

CDIL Semiconductors, which claims to be the first company to introduce silicon semiconductor technology in India in 1964, has also partnered with the government’s Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali. As per the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and CDIL, the latter will utilise the semiconductor wafer fabrication facility for its new packaging unit.