India’s newest fab project has landed a European anchor customer. Power transistors are the product. Nexperia will build them at Tata’s Dholera site in Gujarat, the $11B plant that is still under construction.
A framework signed on September 17 covers the arrangement. Testing and assembly follow at a separate Tata plant in Jagiroad, Assam, budgeted at $3B.
The division of labor is simple. Nexperia supplies discrete, power and analogue process know-how. Tata supplies construction scale and an expanding domestic supplier base.
Two Nexperia executives, interim chief executive Stefan Tilger and chief operating officer Achim Kempe, cast the framework as a long-term industrial tie rather than a capacity booking. Joint technology development, research and ecosystem programs sit alongside the manufacturing scope.
The Indian anchor matters because Nexperia’s ownership remains in flux. Its Chinese parent Wingtech was stripped of control after a Dutch court intervened, and frozen stakes are still being fought over in Chinese courts.
Tata gains a customer for a fab that has not begun volume output. India separately notified a $15B Semicon 2.0 scheme with leaner subsidies for fab operators.
