Intel India on Friday announced the expansion of its design and engineering center in India with the opening of a new facility in Bengaluru.
The company’s new center has 4.53 lakh square feet of space in two towers that can accommodate 2,000 employees and is aimed at scaling up engineering work in the client, data center, IoT, graphics, artificial intelligence and automotive segments.
The facility was inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Electronics & IT, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajiv Chandrasekhar, Intel India Country Head Nivruti Rai and Vice President Intel Foundry Services and eminent leaders of government and industry.
Chandrasekhar said, “Accelerating the pace of digitization with a focus on innovation and engineering excellence in semiconductor product design, including hardware and software for the country, to enable India’s aspiration to become a trillion dollar digital economy by 2025.” mandatory.”
Chandrashekhar further mentioned that the government is working towards three major objectives, two of which are; Firstly, technology should change the lives of people in India and secondly, technology should create more opportunities and expand the digital economy, it should create innovation and entrepreneurship and the youth of India should be shown this. should allow what they are actually capable of. Not only in India but also on the global stage.
Rai said India’s design center is the second largest globally, the largest in the US. He further mentioned that Intel has so far invested over USD 8 billion in India and continues to expand its R&D and innovation footprint in the country.