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Freescale to establish innovation centre in India
Freescale Semiconductor, which has been designing chips and developing software in India since 1998, are planning to establish an International Centre of Excellence for Innovation in Bengaluru, India.
Joe Yiu, senior vice president and chairman of Freescale's
Asia-Pacific operations, said the company will also increase its engineering workforce in India by another 1,500 over the next four years.
Freescale said it is also shifting more of R&D to India, beginning with its wireless business group, said Kai Wang, vice president of global sales and marketing and general manager. One reason is the growing popularity of broadband and wireless services here, he added.
The two Indian centres already contribute to Freescale's microcontroller, networking and communications and analog, sensors and RF units, and some of that development work will also be moved here, Wang said. "While countries such as China, South Korea and Taiwan are focused on exports, India is focused more on its internal market. The volumes in this country are not as large as in those countries, but the demand is rising quickly."
