India and Japan used the India–Japan Semiconductor Forum at SEMICON Japan 2025 in Tokyo to push their chip partnership from policy intent toward concrete, industry-led execution across the full value chain.
The forum highlighted how Japan’s manufacturing strengths and India’s talent and policy momentum can be combined to build a more trusted, resilient, and globally competitive semiconductor ecosystem.
Forum highlights
The forum ran alongside SEMICON Japan 2025 at Tokyo Big Sight, bringing together government officials, global chipmakers, equipment suppliers, and Indian fabless and manufacturing players on a common platform.
Discussions focused on practical collaboration in areas such as wafer fabs, advanced packaging and OSAT, design, joint R&D, and talent development rather than high-level announcements.
Key themes included semiconductor policies and incentives, human capital development and skilling, university–industry collaboration, technology transfer, and clearly defined roadmaps to scalable manufacturing and design in both countries.
Participants emphasized aligning policy direction with industry execution to create trusted supply chains and reduce over-dependence on a few geographies for critical semiconductor components.
Participation and ecosystem depth
The forum saw strong representation from Japanese majors such as Tokyo Electron, Sony Semiconductor Solutions (AITRIOS), KIOXIA Group, SCREEN Holdings, Advantest, HORIBA, Daifuku, Ebara Corporation, Resonac, Tokyo Ohka Kogyo, and Tokyo Seimitsu (ACCRETECH).
Indian companies including Kaynes Semicon, Suchi Semicon, SignOff Semiconductors, UHP Technologies, FUTiSE Technologies, Augsense Lab, Excel Industries, and Accurate joined the deliberations, underlining growing Indian interest in partnering with Japanese leaders across equipment, materials, and design.
Senior leaders such as Amitesh Kumar Sinha, CEO of India Semiconductor Mission, Hidemichi Shimizu from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Koichi Suzuki of Suzuki Motor Corporation, SEMI President and CEO Ajit Manocha, and SEMI India & IESA President Ashok Chandak shared policy and industry perspectives on accelerating collaboration.
Leadership Comments
Commenting on the opportunity, Ashok Chandak, President, SEMI India & IESA, said the India–Japan partnership can become a formidable force in the global semiconductor ecosystem by pairing Japan’s process and manufacturing excellence with India’s scale, engineering talent, and policy tailwinds.
Reflecting industry sentiment, participating Japanese companies underlined that working with India gives them access to a large, fast-growing market and a deep design and software talent pool, while Indian firms viewed Japanese partners as critical to gaining advanced process know?how, equipment capabilities, and quality leadership.
SEMICON Japan 2025 Backdrop
SEMICON Japan 2025 itself attracted more than 125,000 visitors, over 1,200 exhibitors, and discussions led by 300 experts across more than 70 technical and strategic sessions, reinforcing its status as a premier global platform for chip innovation and collaboration.
