Altera to expand in India, Malaysia

Friday, 06 December 2002, 20:30 IST
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BANGALORE: Altera Corp said Friday that it opened a sales office in India targeted at hardware designers, and that it is planning to double staff at a Malaysian facility to 1,000. The company said in Bangalore they saw huge potential in the country as microchips explode in variety and become loaded with software. "Globally India is known as a software powerhouse but that's rapidly changing to the point where you have companies having hundreds of hardware engineers," Ben Lee, vice-president of sales for the Asia-Pacific region. However, Lee did not comment on sales volumes or figures for the Indian market, saying only Asia-Pacific numbers were given by the company, but added business from India had grown 10 times in the past six years without a local office to push sales. Altera, based in San Jose, makes tools to help build end-use microchips and aims at India's software companies, defence laboratories, hardware design startups and automotive industries. Altera has three local partners offering design consultancy using its technologies and seeks more collaborations, Lee said.
Source: IANS