Freescale Semiconductor expands India operations

BANGALORE: Freescale Semiconductor is expanding its India operations with the acquisition of a 300,000-square-foot campus in Noida. The company plans to expand its presence to 1,500 engineers in India over the next four years to support Freescale's global research and development efforts.

"Freescale is comitted to investing in talent across our global design operations and India represents a particularly attractive opportunity," said 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."

Freescale's India Design Centre focuses on intellectual property development and system-on-chip design. It is one of two centers of excellence in the Asia-Pacific region and will be the largest design centre outside of the United States once the expansion is complete. It will be one of the only non-U.S. design centres to develop and deliver R&D products to all three of Freescale's business groups serving the transportation, networking, consumer, and wireless markets.

"Our India design teams work on some of the most advanced 90-nanometer and 65-nanometer designs for applications such as wireless basebands, applications processing and communications processors," said Ganesh Guruswamy, India country manager and director, Freescale Semiconductor India Pvt. Ltd. "We get excellent results out of our existing India operations and this campus gives us room to triple our presence in India by 2010."