Mindteck ventures into hardware design service

By agencies   |   Thursday, 10 August 2006, 19:30 IST
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KOLKATA: Mindteck India, a leading provider of information technology solutions has decided to venture into hardware design services by setting up a new facility at its software development center in Kolkata. The company intends to lift its headcount at its Salt Lake facility from the current 60 to 150 within a year. Addressing a press conference, P A Ananthanarayanan, CEO Mindteck said, “We will get into engineering design services with the expansion of our Kolkata facility. This in response to customer need for end-to-end solutions.” “It is a part of an estimated $5-7 million that would be spent on upgrading facilities across our offices in Bangalore, Singapore and Kolkata this year,” he added. Mindteck's focus areas for business comprise test and metering instruments, medical electronics, semi-conductor capital equipment, wireless communications and smart cards. The company had recently had developed ‘Zigbee’, a low cost protocol for device-to-device wireless communication in industrial application, which rivals ‘Blue tooth’ technology. It has been installed across 650 nodes by Wellspring, a U.S-based metering applications company.