NAMTECH's First Semiconductor Manufacturing Cohort Starts This Month at IIT Gandhinagar
NAMTECH's Master in Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology and Management begins its first batch in August 2026 at the IIT Gandhinagar Research Park, under an ISM–NAMTECH collaboration MoU. Industry partners are Micron, CG Power, Kaynes and Tata Electronics — the same companies operating India's new plants.
The programme is positioned for manufacturing-operations leadership rather than chip design: IC fabrication, assembly and packaging, AI in semiconductors, plant engineering, and supply chain alongside core semiconductor science. The campus sits between the Sanand and Dholera clusters, which places students within reach of Micron’s ATMP facility, CG Semi’s OSAT lines, Kaynes Semicon and the Tata–PSMC fab under construction.
The industry partner list is the notable part. Micron, CG Power, Kaynes and Tata are not sponsors in name — they are the employers whose plants define the job descriptions the curriculum is written against.
This is the closest existing example of what a plant-linked semiconductor programme looks like in India, and it is worth studying rather than competing with. Two features are replicable and two are not. Replicable: the industry MoU signed before the curriculum was fixed, and the physical proximity to hiring plants. Not replicable for most institutions: an IIT research park address, and a master’s-level intake that will produce perhaps a few dozen graduates a year. The scale mismatch is the point — a facility hiring thousands of floor staff cannot be served by a programme of that size, and the operator and technician layer beneath it remains unaddressed by any national scheme so far.