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Xilinx to expand operations in India
By agencies
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Friday, 18 March 2005, 20:30 IST
HYDERABAD: Fabless semiconductor solutions provider Xilinx Inc will expand its India operations following the rollout of its 12 IP cores from its Indian operations in the last 12 months for global requirements.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Xilinx, Willem Roelandts, said, "We placed a bet on India being an integral part of our global R&D ecosystem and we won, thanks to the high-end development team and collaboration with CMC Ltd. Encouraged by our achievements in the first year at India Development Centre (IDC), we plan to invest in this strategic resource centre of IP cores."
"IP cores are off the shelf, pre-defined hardware design modules that Xilinx customers can use to reduce their design efforts, lower total cost of ownership and experience increase in performance. We have taken to development approach with a difference that is non-traditional and radically distinct from the ASIC (application specific integrated circuits) which is solutions-specific. Though the market today is dominated by ASIC, we expect that programmable chips would become the order of the day," Roelandts said.
He also said the company will hike headcount in India to 300 from the present 30.
"Though we would not like to comment on the investment, we expect to see the team strength to go up to 300. This is big number as they are not mere code writers," Roelandts said,
"Xilinx as a corporation spends 17 percent of all of its revenues for R&D. We believe in being present where the market is growing. The Asia-Pacific market has emerged as one of the fastest growing with 37 percent after the US, which accounts for about 42 percent of total business, followed by Europe with 21 percent. Therefore, the expansion is strategic for Xilinx," he explained.