ST to Hire 300 in India
Online staff -- EDN, February 21, 2006
STMicroelectronics has inaugurated its new design and development facility in Greater Noida, India, with plans to recruit 300 new engineers by the end of 2006 for the plant.
The European chip giant also plans to invest $30 million in local operations over the next two years.
Set on a 100,000 square meter area and with a capacity for 5000 employees, the new campus is ST’s largest design center outside Europe.
India, a hot spot for semi development and the site of many overseas expansion projects, in recent weeks has seen several major industry players announce plans to set up shop in the country. Dell, PMC-Sierra, PortalPlayer, Elpida and SanDisk have all stated intentions to set up Indian outposts since the beginning of the year.
“The new facility truly underlines the growing importance of ST’s India operations within our global R&D efforts,” Carlo Bozotti, president and CEO of ST, in a statement. “These efforts represent the essence of the company’s continued growth. ST India has contributed significantly to the development of leading-edge technologies and products for a number of our key applications, including set-top box, multimedia, imaging, wireless telecommunications, and automotive.”
In February 2004, ST set up its third design and development facility in Noida, near New Delhi, and announced intentions to set up facilities in Bangalore and Greater Noida.
ST designers in India participated in the development of ST’s Nomadik platform, a mobile application architecture, as well as helping to design ST’s set-top box chips and low-power CMOS camera modules. The company’s engineers in India have also contributed to the development of the first design platform on the 90nm deep-submicron CMOS technology.
Since its inception in the late 1980s, ST India has evolved into one of the largest semiconductor research and design operations in the country, currently employing 1,500 people, according to the company. Set on a 100,000 square meter area and with a capacity for 5,000 employees, the new campus is ST’s largest design center outside Europe.
