UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — PM to visit Gujarat on 28th February
Q1. As of December 2025, how many semiconductor projects had been approved for support under the India Semiconductor Mission?
Q2. Which one of the following best describes the institutional character of the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM)?
- A. An independent Business Division set up within the Digital India Corporation under MeitY, serving as the nodal agency for semiconductor and display schemes
- B. A statutory regulatory authority constituted under a dedicated Act of Parliament with quasi-judicial powers
- C. A public sector undertaking wholly owned by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- D. An attached office of the Department of Science and Technology tasked solely with chip design research
Q3. In which year did the Union Cabinet approve Micron's proposal to set up its semiconductor unit at Sanand, Gujarat?
- A. 2021
- B. 2022
- C. 2023
- D. 2024
Q4. The Micron Sanand plant is described as an 'ATMP' unit. Which one of the following correctly captures what ATMP denotes?
- A. Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging - a back-end stage that converts fabricated wafers into finished packaged chips and memory modules
- B. Advanced Transistor Manufacturing Process - the front-end etching of circuits onto raw silicon wafers
- C. Automated Testing and Material Processing - the purification of silicon ingots before wafer slicing
- D. Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging - a stage that both fabricates wafers and packages them within one integrated line
Q5. In the semiconductor value chain, which one of the following best describes an OSAT provider?
- A. A third-party merchant vendor that performs outsourced back-end assembly and testing of chips
- B. A front-end foundry that etches integrated circuits onto silicon wafers
- C. An in-house design house that only develops chip architectures and IP cores
- D. A government agency that certifies semiconductor fabs before they begin production
Q6. Which one of the following stages of the semiconductor manufacturing process is referred to as the 'front-end'?
- A. Wafer fabrication (fab)
- B. Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging (ATMP)
- C. Outsourced assembly and test (OSAT)
- D. Final board-level system integration
Q7. Consider the following statements about semiconductor units approved under the India Semiconductor Mission:
1. The Tata Electronics-PSMC wafer fabrication unit is located at Dholera in Gujarat.
2. Tata Semiconductor's ATMP facility, the first such unit in the Northeast, is located at Jagiroad in Assam.
3. The HCL-Foxconn joint venture unit is located at Sanand in Gujarat.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- The Tata Electronics-PSMC wafer fabrication unit is located at Dholera in Gujarat.
- Tata Semiconductor's ATMP facility, the first such unit in the Northeast, is located at Jagiroad in Assam.
- The HCL-Foxconn joint venture unit is located at Sanand in Gujarat.
- A. 1 and 2 only
- B. 1 and 3 only
- C. 2 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3
Q8. Among the units approved under the India Semiconductor Mission, the Tata Electronics-PSMC project at Dholera is best described as which one of the following?
- A. India's first commercial wafer fabrication (fab) unit
- B. A back-end ATMP/OSAT packaging unit for imported wafers
- C. A compound-semiconductor and Micro-LED display packaging facility
- D. A silicon-carbide power-device assembly line
Q9. Consider the following pairings of an approved semiconductor unit with its stated location as Sanand, Gujarat:
1. Micron Technology ATMP unit - Sanand
2. Kaynes Semicon unit - Sanand
3. CG Power-Renesas unit - Sanand
4. Tata Electronics-PSMC fab - Sanand
Which of the above is/are NOT correctly matched?
- Micron Technology ATMP unit - Sanand
- Kaynes Semicon unit - Sanand
- CG Power-Renesas unit - Sanand
- Tata Electronics-PSMC fab - Sanand
- A. 1 and 3
- B. 2 and 4
- C. 1, 2 and 4
- D. 4 only
Q10. The Sanand Industrial Estate, which hosts multiple semiconductor units, is developed and administered by which one of the following bodies?
- A. Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC)
- B. Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC)
- C. Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC)
- D. Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB)
Q11. The semiconductor unit inaugurated at Sanand on 28 February 2026 - India's first operational commercial semiconductor facility - was set up under which one of the following programmes?
- A. Semicon India Programme (India Semiconductor Mission) under MeitY
- B. Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing
- C. Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (M-SIPS)
- D. Scheme for Promotion of Manufacturing of Electronic Components and Semiconductors (SPECS)
Q12. A DRAM cell is volatile and must be electrically refreshed to retain its data. Approximately after how many milliseconds does a typical DRAM cell require a refresh cycle?