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izmomicro Advances into India’s Defence Sector with Advanced Semiconductor Packaging

India’s leading semiconductor packaging company enters the defence electronics value chain as the nation’s indigenization mandate and record defence budgets reshape the industry.

BENGALURU, India — March 09, 2026 — izmomicro (izmo Microsystems Pvt. Ltd.), the advanced semiconductor packaging subsidiary of NSE/BSE-listed izmo Limited, today announced its strategic entry into India’s defence electronics sector. The Company is now engaged with India’s leading defence organizations — spanning government research establishments, defence public sector undertakings, and private sector defence primes — as an advanced packaging partner for mission-critical electronics programs.

izmomicro’s packaging capabilities serve the core electronics domains at the heart of India’s defence modernization — radar and sensing systems, high-frequency RF and microwave assemblies for electronic warfare and communications, airborne electronics for fighter aircraft and unmanned platforms, and precision guidance systems for India’s expanding guided munitions programs. These represent the highest-complexity, highest-value segments of the defence electronics supply chain, and the areas of greatest pressure under India’s domestic sourcing mandate.

Commenting on the development, Dinanath Soni, Director, izmomicro, said that "India’s defence modernisation and the Government’s policy support for domestic semiconductor capability are creating meaningful opportunities for companies with strong engineering and advanced manufacturing expertise”. He added that "izmomicro’s entry into the defence electronics segment, supported by existing execution and technology capability, reflects the Company’s focus on participating in high-value applications where advanced semiconductor packaging can deliver long-term strategic relevance and growth”.

India’s defence budget has reached an all-time high of ₹7.85 lakh crore in FY2026–27, and the impact on domestic industry is profound. Three-quarters of all capital acquisition spending is now mandated exclusively for Indian companies, effectively shutting out imports across hundreds of defence items and redirecting procurement worth lakhs of crores annually into the domestic supply chain. For Indian companies with genuine advanced technology capabilities, this is not an incremental policy shift — it is a structural transformation of the defence industrial base, creating a sustained pipeline of sovereign-backed demand that did not exist a decade ago.

The Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative reinforces these commitments with enforceable policy. Positive Indigenization Lists prohibit imports of hundreds of defence items that can be sourced domestically, and foreign OEMs must partner with Indian companies as a condition for market access. For domestic manufacturers with genuine advanced technology capabilities, this creates a structural and growing demand that cannot be served by offshore competitors.

The Government of India has designated semiconductors as a sector of strategic national importance. The India Semiconductor Mission, backed by an outlay of ₹76,000 crore, has approved 10 projects with cumulative investments of approximately ₹1.60 lakh crore across six states, encompassing fabrication, advanced packaging, and assembly and testing infrastructure. izmomicro has developed advanced silicon photonics packaging, RF and microwave assembly, and high-reliability hermetic packaging technologies under this national semiconductor ecosystem.

Today, izmomicro is recognized as India’s technology leader in advanced semiconductor packaging — the only company in India with demonstrated capability across silicon photonics, 3D System-in-Package architectures, and defence-grade hermetic ceramic packaging. This technology leadership, built over nearly two decades, positions izmomicro as a natural packaging partner for India’s defence electronics programs.

With India’s defence sector undergoing its most significant transformation in decades, izmomicro’s entry brings together the country’s largest defence budgets, an enforceable indigenization mandate, a national semiconductor mission, and a domestic company with nearly two decades of proven advanced packaging capability. This combination of policy, timing, and technology positions izmomicro as a strategic participant in India’s defence electronics value chain and opens a significant new business dimension for izmo Limited.

About izmo Microsystems

izmo Microsystems Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of IZMO Limited (NSE: IZMO | BSE: 532341), is an advanced semiconductor packaging and electronics manufacturing company based in Bengaluru, India. The company focuses on System-in-Package, advanced IC packaging and high reliability electronics for applications across defence and aerospace, telecommunications, industrial electronics, automotive, medical electronics, optical communications and other advanced technology markets.

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