Freescale expands India operations
By agencies   |   Monday, 13 March 2006, 20:30 IST
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BANGALORE: Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its India operations with the acquisition of a 300,000-square-foot campus in Noida. The company plans to increase the headcount to 1,500 engineers in India over the next four years to support Freescale's global research and development efforts. According to the company’s statement, Freescale's India Design Center focuses on intellectual property (IP) development and SoC design. It is one of two centers of excellence in the Asia-Pacific region and will be the largest design center outside of the U.S. once the expansion is complete. The center will also be one of the only non-U.S. design centers to develop and deliver R&D products to all three of Freescale's business groups serving the transportation, networking, consumer and wireless markets. The company’s Senior Vice-President, strategy and business development, Sumit Sadana said, “Freescale is committed to investing in talent across our global design operations and India represents a particularly attractive opportunity. We have had operations in India for almost two decades and want to leverage the highly-educated Indian workforce and growing Indian market.” Freescale’s India design teams work on the most advanced 90nm and 65nm designs for applications such as wireless basebands, applications processing and communications processors. "We get excellent results out of our existing India operations and this campus gives us room to triple our presence in India by 2010,” he added.

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