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Saturday, Dec 04, 2004

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Philips centre to take up technology challenge

By Anand Parthasarathy

BANGALORE, DEC. 3. The 400-engineer strong India-based development centre of Philips Semiconductors is slated not just to grow numerically. It will broaden its mandate from software to hardware to systems-on-chip that will bring a `cool' splash to tomorrow's technologies, visiting Chief Technology Officer, Rene Penning de Vries, said here today. The `thandi hava' or cool factor according to the company is a slate of new applications at the convergence of computing communications and consumer products that all have short life cycles but need to be lightning fast-to-market.

And as the Bangalore-based engineers mesh with other development centres of the Netherland's based company, they will be working at the cutting edge of silicon technology, helping migrate today's applications running on 90 nanometre wafers to tomorrow's 65 nanometre standard, Dr. de Vries added. He was briefing a select group of Indian technology journalists on the company's techno-vision, in India and worldwide.

Inevitably, the mobile phone will be the platform that receives maximum attention — but Philips also had a big role in co-authoring the BluRay standard for upcoming high density storage on DVDs and says it would ensure that compelling consumer platforms harnessing high definition TV and video would flow from its development labs.

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