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ARM operations in India in progress

Anand Parthasarathy

Bangalore: The U.K.-based microprocessor technology player, ARM, whose licensed cores fuel nine of 10 mobile phones used worldwide, has beefed up its India-based development operations.

Last week, Britain’s Prince Andrew, Duke of York, inaugurated the company’s new Bangalore design facility, which boasts ‘head room’ to double the present strength of 350 staff, almost all of them software and chip design engineers.

Already its largest R&D base outside the U.K., the Bangalore operation will soon see the India end increasingly ‘owning’ the physical intellectual property that goes into ARM offerings, said Chief Operating Officer Tudor Brown.

‘Fastest growing’

“The India centre is our fastest growing — a true microcosm of the ARM family, handling key functions that include physical design, chip design, testing and embedded design,” he added.

Anil Gupta, Managing Director of ARM’s India operations, said if the engineers who worked with the company’s Indian design partners such as HCL, Sasken, TCS, Wipro and others were factored in, over 7,000 ARM engineers were based in this country, 2,000 in Bangalore alone. Prince Andrew handed over pledges underlining ARM’s commitment to support three local voluntary agencies.

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