New Delhi, May 13 -- Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Railways, and Information and Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday inaugurated two new state-of-the-art design facilities of Renesas Electronics India Private Limited located in Noida and Bengaluru, an official release from the Ministry of Electronics and IT said.

Highlighting the uniqueness of the new facility, Vaishnaw informed that this is India's first design centre to work on cutting-edge 3-nanometer chip design, a milestone that places India firmly in the global league of semiconductor innovation.

"Designing at 3nm is truly next-generation. We've done 7nm and 5nm earlier, but this marks a new frontier," Vaishnaw said.

"In a first, 3nm chips will b...