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Infineon to add 200 in India center

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BANGALORE: World’s sixth largest semiconductor manufacturer, Infineon is planning to add about 200 employees this year, to it’s existing 250 employees in India. The additions are expected to be in the areas of software development, tools development and sales and marketing. On the sales front, Infineon India has churned out Euro10 million in the past three years. The company’s only center in India is located in the International Tech Park of Bangalore.



"We have about 200 slots to be filled up this year, out of which 80 per cent would be in software development, 15 per cent in tools development and five per cent in sales and marketing," announced Thomas Simonis, Managing Director, Infineon Technologies India Pvt Ltd.



Munich Germany based Infineon has a global workforce of 32,900 out of which 6,100 are engaged exclusively in research and development activities spread across 27 centers located in 10 countries. The company spends roughly Euro1 billion in research and development from revenue of Euro6.15 billion for fiscal year ending September 2003.



The company is looking towards Indian IT companies to build applications. "We already have two to three partners with whom we work in the wireless space in India. I cannot name them but the popular big Indian companies are our partners. We constantly keep looking for partners to outsource certain components of our work to them," added Simonis.



He also revealed that the R&D center in Bangalore, India develops software for Infineon’s project, e-Farm, a pilot project in the RFID space, which is used to track the sheep. Apart from this, the company is engaged in wireless technologies, protocols, signal processing, security applications, virtual prototyping, voice over IP and device stimulator among other things in software development.



It is also involved in design flow and design libraries as part of the tools development work and optical networking, cable modem and WLAN as part of its integrated circuit design activity.

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