US semiconductor major Micron Technology will assemble and test hundreds of millions of memory chips at its Sanand facility in Gujarat next year, as the company expands its manufacturing operations in India, CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said at the 5th edition of SEMICON India 2026, on Thursday.
Mehrotra said Micron had already started commercial production at the Sanand facility earlier this year.
“Our current production capacity already exceeds the memory required for India's entire laptop market. This year we will assemble and test tens of millions of chips at Sanand. Next year, hundreds of millions of chips,” Mehrotra said.
Micron’s Sanand facility is the first semiconductor assembly and test plant in India and the first project approved under the India Semiconductor Mission. Mehrotra said finished DRAM and NAND products manufactured at the facility are now being shipped to customers across the world.
“This country has waited a long time to put "Made in India" label on a memory chip,” Mehrotra said.
The CEO said Micron has been operating in India for seven years and directly employs more than 7,000 people. Its operations also support tens of thousands of additional jobs across the supply chain.
He said the company’s engineering centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru have become an important part of the global technology network, with its Indian teams contributing to more than 3,700 patents, inventions and disclosures.
Mehrotra said the growth of artificial intelligence is also driving demand for advanced memory and storage. “AI is the defining technology of our time and AI begins with data. There is no model without data, and data cannot move, scale, or turn into an answer without memory and storage,” he said.
The company is also expanding its research and talent-development activities in India. Its University Research Alliance works with 20 universities on sponsored research and design courses, while the Micron Foundation runs chip camps, STEM labs and AI programmes.
Mehrotra also credited the India Semiconductor Mission and the government’s semiconductor policies for providing the foundation for the company’s manufacturing investment in the country. He said Micron’s journey in India reflects the broader shift in the country’s semiconductor ecosystem “from potential to scale” and “from innovation to execution”.
