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Motorola to invest $17 m in India R&D centre

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALAORE, APRIL 7. The telecom equipment maker, Motorola, plans to invest $17 million and hire nearly 500 people at its India R&D centre here every year said the Motorola Chief Technology Officer, Padmasree Warrior, here today.

Speaking to presspersons at the launch of Motorola's applied research lab at its R&D centre, she said the company would invest as long as India had skilled potential. The company has invested so far $150 million in the R&D centre.

"We plan to grow this (investment made in the last two years — $ 85 million) investment by 10 to 20 per cent per year,'' she said. Ms. Warrior said Motorola would increase its India headcount by up to 25 per cent annually (500 people) to the existing 2,000 engineers at the lab, one of the company's largest in the world.

On the plans of manufacturing phones in India, she said, "40 per cent of the software in our devices is made in India.''

The applied research lab, she said, would look at converged networks, autonomic networking, enterprise applications and embedded systems and physical sciences and would employ about 35 scientists, which would be ramped up to about 100. Ms. Warrior said the lab would work on technologies with a timeframe of five to ten years.

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