SEMICON India 2026: 'Silicon to Systems' Shows India's Chip Ecosystem

The fifth edition of SEMICON India was held at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, from 17 to 19 September 2026 on the theme "Silicon to Systems: Building the Ecosystem". On 22 September the Ministry of Electronics and IT published an account of what the exhibition put on display: chip design, advanced packaging, materials, equipment, AI and high-performance computing, all under one roof.

Scale of the show

• More than 600 exhibiting companies from various countries.
• A Start-up Pavilion, a Workforce Development Pavilion, country and State pavilions, and a hackathon.
• Industry leaders, policymakers, investors, academia and start-ups from the global semiconductor ecosystem.

Indian chips on display

• C-DAC showed its AUM HPC-AI processor and RUDRA-AUM compute node, along with its indigenous 64-bit RISC-V processor built on the open RISC-V architecture.
• InCore Semiconductors presented RISC-V processor IPs and chip-design tools, proven in silicon from 180 nm down to 16 nm nodes.
• Netrasemi has taped out an AI system-on-chip for CCTV surveillance in the 12 nm node.
• Vervesemi Microelectronics designs chips for motor control, energy meters, appliances, electric mobility and drones.
• Aheesa Technology built an internet connectivity device delivering up to 1 Gbps that lets an ISP connect about 64 homes through one optical line terminal, running on the fully Indian Vihan software and C-DAC's RISC-V processor.

Policy behind the show

Why it matters

A semiconductor ecosystem needs far more than a fab. It needs chip designers, packaging and testing units, equipment and material suppliers, research labs and a trained workforce. The exhibition's message was that India's effort has moved from policy announcements to production, with the first facilities already shipping and a design base that is among the largest in the world.