Freescale to hire 1,500 pros in India

By agencies   |   Thursday, 09 March 2006, 20:30 IST
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NEW DELHI: Freescale Semiconductor Inc, which was spun off from Motorola is expanding its India operations by adding 1,500 engineers in India over the next four years. Freescale is buying a 300,000-square-foot campus in Noida, near New Delhi that will be home of Freescale's India Design Center and will focus on intellectual property development and system-on-chip design. "Freescale is committed to investing in talent across our global design operations and India represents a particularly attractive opportunity," says Sumit Sadana, Freescale's senior vice president, strategy and business development. "We've had operations in India for almost two decades and want to leverage the highly-educated Indian workforce and growing Indian market." The India Design Center will be the company's largest design center outside the U.S. once it's completed. The company has a similar design center in the Asia-Pacific region. Freescale India's operations currently include a research and development center in Noida with a software center and sales office in Bangalore. The company employs about 500 engineers and focuses on next-generation technology. The India Design Center has filed more than 30 patents over the last two years. Ganesh Guruswamy, India country manager and director, says the new space will give the company room to triple its presence in India by 2010.