Intel to build in India?

K.C. Krishnadas writes for EETimes:

BANGALORE, India — Intel Corp. will locate a production facility in the southern Indian city of Chennai, according to a news report Monday (April 11) quoting India's union minister for communications and information technology, Dayanidhi Maran.

No further details about what will be manufactured at the proposed plant, or whether it will be a fabrication facility, were available. Past reports have assumed that an Indian manufacturing facility would imply the construction of a wafer fab. Other observers have said this is unlikely, and that a test and assembly facility for the chip packaging is more likely.

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