Trigem to open its assembly unit in India

NEW DELHI: Trigem Computer Inc, South Korea's second-largest computer maker, is working on plans to set up an assembly unit in India, a top company official informed. "Our study should be completed in six months and we'll start with a small scale unit," Yong-Teh Lee, chairman of Trigem Computer, told Reuters on the sidelines of a business gathering. "We'll assemble 5,000 computers a month." Lee did not say when the unit would begin operations or give details on the investment Trigem planned for India.

Trigem, a maker of low-priced computers, will compete with a clutch of domestic and multinational firms such as HCL Infosystems Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp in India.The firm will also battle a well-entrenched grey market which accounts for more than half the total personal computer sales in the country each year. Over two million personal computers were sold last year in India where the installed base is six million units.

Lee said Trigem also had plans to leverage India's quality software manpower to design software for electronic and digital equipment. "We can put up a design lab in India for more intelligent systems such as PDAs (personal digital assistants) that have software content," he said.

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