Credit: Nexperia “We are thrilled to partner with Nexperia for manufacturing their products at our semiconductor facilities in Dholera and Jagiroad,” said Randhir Thakur, chief executive of Tata Electronics. The Dutch chipmaker and the Indian manufacturer announced a partnership on Thursday covering chip production and packaging in India. They issued the joint statement from Nijmegen and New Delhi. Reuters described the deal as further sealing Nexperia’s split with its Chinese parent, Wingtech.
Toby Sterling reported it from Amsterdam. Neither company disclosed the financial terms. What the two companies agreed The partnership has three pillars: front-end wafer fabrication, back-end assembly and test, and technology and ecosystem development. The two are laying the groundwork to produce Nexperia’s MOSFET portfolio at Tata’s 300mm fab in Dholera, Gujarat.
The plant is still under construction. The back end goes to Assam. Tata will assemble and test Nexperia’s discrete semiconductor products at its packaging facility in Jagiroad. The third pillar is not production.
It covers technology development, research and ecosystem work, combining Nexperia’s expertise in discrete, power and analog semiconductors with Tata’s manufacturing capacity. The statement says what the deal is for The release does not leave the purpose to be inferred. The alliance “enhances manufacturing flexibility, strengthens supply chain resilience, and establishes scalable production pathways to support Nexperia’s future growth”, it says. Stefan Tilger, Nexperia’s interim chief executive, made the same point.
The framework “reinforces our commitment to serving customers through a resilient and globally balanced manufacturing network”, he said. Achim Kempe, the company’s chief operations officer, said the collaboration “represents much more than manufacturing”. He described a long-term partnership supporting innovation, growth and supply resilience across the semiconductor value chain. Both companies said they recognise the importance of creating resilient and geographically diversified supply chains.
They listed demand growing across automotive, industrial, consumer, energy, communications and infrastructure applications. Tata put it in an India and Europe frame Thakur went further than the manufacturing detail. The partnership “represents an important step in Tata Electronics’ efforts to build a globally competitive, integrated semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem in India”, he said. He then reached for trade policy. “Our collaboration also aligns with the growing technology and trade relationship between India and the European Union,” he said.
He added that alliances of this kind will help unlock opportunities for industrial cooperation and technology development. Neither the Reuters report nor the Indian wire coverage carried that part of his statement. How Nexperia ended up looking for a new base The Dutch government intervened in Nexperia in September 2025, moving to stop the company shifting operations to China. Wingtech, its Shanghai-listed owner, sued Nexperia in a Chinese court over the seizure.
Beijing retaliated by temporarily banning exports of chips packaged at Nexperia’s Dongguan site. Carmakers ran short of components as a result. Both governments have since reversed their moves. A Dutch court stripped Wingtech of control, and Reuters reports that the company remains fractured along national lines.
A Chinese court has separately frozen Nexperia’s stakes in four of its own subsidiaries. That case was still running at the start of this month. The Netherlands now screens foreign investment in AI and biotech companies, a change it made after Nexperia. Nexperia’s current management board endorsed Thursday’s partnership.
What each side brings Nexperia is headquartered in the Netherlands and employs more than 12,500 people across Europe, Asia and the United States. It ships over 100 billion products a year. Its components sit in what the company calls virtually every commercial electronic design, from automotive and industrial to mobile and consumer applications. Discrete, power and analog parts are the range it is bringing to the partnership.
Tata Electronics is six years old. The Tata Group founded it as a greenfield venture in 2020, and it now runs electronics manufacturing services, semiconductor assembly and test, foundry and design services. It has Indian operations in Gujarat, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and offices in the United States, Taiwan and Singapore. Dholera will be India’s first commercial semiconductor fab and Jagiroad its first indigenous assembly and test plant.
Dholera is the expensive part Tata puts the combined investment in the two sites at $14bn. Reuters gives the Dholera plant alone at $11bn. The figure from the Indian side matches. Tata is spending around Rs 91,000 crore on Dholera, The Economic Times reported from a Semicon India panel, in a story filed by PTI.
The plant will draw on roughly 450 suppliers. Utpal Shah, Tata Electronics senior vice president for strategy and business development, gave the number at the event. A 363-acre vendor park is being built to house them. Shah said a reputed developer from Singapore is developing it.
He was blunt about why the suppliers have to sit next door. The fab “is highly capital-intensive and it cannot be down even for a few hours”, he said. India has committed $20 billion to chips and smartphones under a programme Narendra Modi has pushed. Dholera is the flagship of it.
Nexperia was one of seven Nexperia was not the only company Tata signed with that week. Thakur said Tata Electronics holds 16 agreements across Europe, Japan, Singapore and India. Tata signed seven of them at Semicon India itself. Alongside Nexperia, they cover Fujifilm on materials localisation and Besi on advanced packaging at Jagiroad.
Two more are domestic. The Semiconductor Laboratory signed on chip design, process technologies, supply chain localisation and talent, and Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya signed on skills. Thakur sorts the agreements into three categories: customers, partners, and academic institutions for talent. Tata is also spending $1bn on batteries with JSW to cut India’s reliance on Chinese supply chains.
What has not been said The financial terms are not public. Neither company has given a date for first production at Dholera. Thakur said Dholera and Assam are both on track. The fab is still a construction site.
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