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India to get ARM's second largest design center
By Christo Jacob
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Friday, 14 March 2008, 01:53 IST
Bangalore: Royal Highness Prince Andrew, The Duke of York KG KCVO, inaugurated ARM?s second largest design center outside Cambridge. The center, which is an extension of the current design center, will focus on next generation ARM technology for advanced digital products. With this the company expects to double its current 350 employees to 700.
"ARM is not scouting to fill the vacancies, however the key challenge is to find the talent for the appropriate roles," said Anil Gupta, Managing Director, ARM. To tackle this issue, the company is investing significant amount in the academic alliances, learning and development programs for the technical, managerial and soft skills, added Gupta.
ARM's Chief Operating Officer, Tudor Brown said, "The Bangalore center is the only center that supports all the operations of ARM. The expansion reinforces the critical role played by India in ARM?s worldwide operations. Since ARM began operations in India in 2004, the India design center has become increasingly important in harnessing skilled technical talent to develop leading solutions for the digital world."
While Gupta said that the current Indian workforce comprise of 95 percent of technical employees, Atul Arora, President Commercial Operations told SI, "By increasing the headcount this percentage might further go down in the technical workforce."
Brown told SiliconIndia, "The company may add new operations to the design center in the future and to assist them ARM might pool in talent from outside India too."
ARM's semiconductor partners have shipped over 10 billion ARM powered processors to date -? currently at a rate approaching 100 every second. ARM delivers high-performance, low-power processors, graphics engines, physical IP, peripherals, software and tools that are at the heart of more than 90 percent of the world's mobile devices, as well as being the architectural basis of applications in the wireless, networking, security and automotive spaces. ARM's Indian operations, which is the 17 percent of the global workforce are aimed at creating high-value semiconductor intellectual property (IP), products and solutions that address these markets, as well as offering services for companies developing products based on the ARM architecture.
Pledging its support for underprivileged children, the company formally announced its corporate social responsibility program 'Anvas', which means ?to reach out? in Sanskrit. With a focus on making a positive impact by supporting a wide range of socio economic, educational and health initiatives, ARM has volunteered to work with Ashwini Charitable Trust, Sahasra Deepika Institute for education and the Marthahalli Government School in Bangalore.
ARM committed 6000 hours of ARM employees' voluntary work with the three organizations over the next two years. In addition to working for children?s education and empowerment, ARM will contribute a financial amount matching the personal contributions of its employees, to encourage Anvas.
