Sasken to recruit 300 people next month

MUMBAI: Sasken Communication Technologies Limited, a chip designer and a software developer for mobile computing, would be adding 300 people by March 2004 to take its head count in Bangalore to 1,600 from its present 1,400 people.

The company has also announced plans to open a software development center in Pune by March 2004 with about 30 people initially and scale up to 100 within the next 6 months.

"We are planning to invest close to $10 million in the next 3 years in Pune. The large pool of embedded developers available in the city has attracted us to come and set up a center in Pune," said, Milind Gandhe, Head-Market Analysis and Research Marketing, Sasken.

The focus area for the Pune development center would be chip design and embedded in the DSP space.

CIOL Bureau