Polymatech Electronics has been India’s sole developer, producer, and packager of opto-semiconductor chips since 2019. (File for illustration)
The partnership entails a complete trade, as Orbray will present coaching to Polymatech Electronics engineers at its state-of-the-art facility in Japan
Polymatech Electronics, India’s pioneer in opto-semiconductor chips, has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japanese agency Orbray Co. Ltd, marking a pivotal step within the firm’s imaginative and prescient to evolve right into a “totally built-in, end-to-end semiconductor firm”.
Nonetheless, the partnership entails a complete trade, as Orbray will present coaching to Polymatech Electronics engineers at its state-of-the-art facility in Japan. Moreover, the Indian firm has additionally finalised the procurement of sapphire ingot rising and wafer fabrication equipment, slated for set up by March 2025 at its Chennai facility.
Sapphire ingot know-how is the method of rising massive, high-quality crystals of sapphire (aluminium oxide) to be used within the semiconductor trade.
Eswara Rao Nandam, Managing Director & CEO of Polymatech Electronics, remarked, “This can be a historic day for us as we transfer nearer to our firm’s imaginative and prescient of changing into a ‘totally built-in, end-to-end semiconductor firm’. This MoU will allow us to progress in the direction of changing ingot into merchandise, thereby coming into the subsequent stage of our development story.”
Orbray, an 85-year-old Japanese precision elements producer famend globally, brings to the desk a wealth of experience in optical fibre elements, Sapphire Wafers, and micro-motors, working throughout numerous crops worldwide.
As of now, Polymatech Electronics has been India’s sole developer, producer, and packager of opto-semiconductor chips since 2019. Opto-semiconductor chips are tiny digital gadgets that may both emit or detect mild. They’re constituted of particular supplies, like silicon or germanium, which may conduct electrical energy and work together with mild in distinctive methods. There are two major sorts of opto-semiconductor chips, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), the place the Tamil Nadu firm has the key focus, and light-detecting gadgets.
With an increasing clientele spanning the US, EU, and MENA international locations, the corporate boasts a present manufacturing capability of two,000 million chips. Polymatech Electronics manufactures these chips at its Oragadam, Tamil Nadu facility and has exported greater than $125 million within the fiscal yr 2023-24.
Polymatech Electronics makes a speciality of designing, manufacturing, packaging, and assembling semiconductor chips and chip modules catering to various functions, together with medical, agriculture, large-area lighting, PCs, laptops, and mobile phone backlights.
Nandam mentioned: “This can be a appreciable funding, and we’ll apply with the Authorities of India for capital subsidy beneath relevant schemes and respective state governments. Polymatech Electronics beforehand signed an MoU with the Authorities of Tamil Nadu on 27 Could 2020.”
“We’re additionally in superior discussions with Silicon Carbide Wafer and Silicon Wafer fabrication equipment suppliers to speed up our plans to change into multi-wafer producers. As a part of Polymatech Electronics initiative to make high-end semiconductor chips, we’ll provide all these wafers to firms coming into the Indian marketplace for packaging and different companies,” he added.
