IBM in India established the first overseas chip design center

IBM days before the company announced the establishment of the outsourcing company HCL technology company in India, the first design center which is IBM company established overseas, mainly for the development of architecture design of Power chip.

IBM to make this decision, mainly on account of India's high-end chip design of the rapid development of the situation. In recent years, India has become the world's focus on software development and low end office base.

Move, also with the IBM company in microprocessors coincides with the implementation of the strategy of opening up, the establishment of the design center to wireless technology, consumer products and network development. Currently, IBM's Power chip has been used by Microsoft's Xbox game console, high-definition tv.

Used Power chip of IBM company to achieve through the optimization performance of the chip compression chip transistor size, quick speed is further improved. The new chip architecture, focusing on the processor's energy consumption and performance. IBM has its own Power chip design center in Bangalore, and has established design centers in Israel, China, Japan, Switzerland and germany.

IBM design center in India, also shows that the semiconductor design industry in India has made rapid progress, further expand the scale of. According to iSuppli, a market research firm, the size of the semiconductor industry will increase from $624 million to $1 billion 720 million by 2010.

The agency analyst Jagdish Rebello said: "outsourcing chip design into India and other low-cost market, is a developing trend. "In India, with low cost, English speaking technical personnel, this will help IBM expand its overseas market size. Sham, director of the Dezhou center in India, said: "people's view of India is changing, India is becoming the world's product development center, software and chip design center. "

HCL technology company, is IBM in the overseas fifth service outsourcing companies, the licensing fees for the IBM contribution, increase the income of IBM sources. IBM's goal is to provide solutions to the Power architecture, the next two years, the number of employees of the new company will increase to 1000. Now, a large number of companies to open the center in India, there are about 125 chip companies set up factories in India, mainly concentrated in the Bangalore area. Chairman of the India Semiconductor Association Poornima

Shenoy said: "the world's major chip manufacturers have opened a center in India". For example, Intel opened a design center in India, the number has reached 2500 people, India design center has become the largest base of Intel overseas. However, India is not the largest chip production base, which is a major shortage, China and Taiwan become the main production base of the chip.