This planned campus will create up to 4,000 high skilled jobs, State Industries Minister TRB Rajaa said.
The 12 acre campus is envisioned as KLA’s global R&D and innovation hub, with potential built up capacity of up to 1.5 million square feet over time. It will support advanced research in high performance computing, process control engineering software and AI driven semiconductor innovation. When fully developed, this will be KLA’s largest integrated R&D presence outside its global headquarters, he said.
This investment reflects confidence in Tamil Nadu’s governance stability, policy clarity and deep engineering talent pool. From electronics manufacturing to semiconductor R&D, we are moving up the value chain, Rajaa added.
The MOU was signed in presence of Chief Minister M K Stalin.
“Planned on a 12 acre site, the proposed campus builds on the strong foundation our India teams have created over many years. It is expected to support advanced research and engineering and generate up to 4,000 jobs over 10 years, strengthening India’s role in KLA’s global AI and software led semiconductor innovation ecosystem,” Dominic Gerald David, President, KLA India, said.
This represents a significant milestone in how KLA continues to build for the future in India. Investing where innovation compounds, we’re scaling the trust, magnitude, and momentum, he said.
“This MoU reflects our long term commitment to India as a strategic hub for R&D, software, and innovation — an ecosystem where complex, high impact work can be conceived and delivered at global scale.
This builds on 20 years of contribution from our India teams and reinforces our long-term commitment to India’s semiconductor future. Today, we build for the next 20!,” David said.
