Santa Clara, California-based Intel already has a development center in India’s technology capital, Bangalore, which designs and develops software to power chips that drive computers and high-end networks for Internet-based applications.
Over the past year, Maran has been aggressively lobbying firms to set up manufacturing units in India.
While India’s software skills are widely recognized and firms such as Motorola have set up large units to outsource software services, the country is still not considered a world-class manufacturing destination due to its creaky infrastructure and restrictive labor laws.
There are no chip manufacturing units in the country.
But the tide is turning and firms such as Nokia and LG Electronics Inc. are investing millions of dollars to set up mobile handset manufacturing plants in India to cater for growing demand in Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
seriously, the roads are crammed. Currently in bangalore, all road traffic on Hosur road is suspended for about 4 hours every evening and morning, coz the IT ppl from Electronics City have to return to the city and have to go to work…i saw HUUUGE lines of trucks queueing up when i was there…thats very bad…
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@ Darky: Ur comment about poor infrastructure reminds me of the sorry state ot heavy n congested traffic in Bangalore. It seems Foreigners who visit the IT capital on business find it hard to digest that they need one and half hours for travelling from their Hotel to the company n another couple of hours to get back! That and given the fact that there is a serious scarcity of 5-star hotels in Bangalore, most of the companies are building their own on-campus 5-star “guest blocks” with a complete 24-hour staff to cater to your needs. Plus its cuts atleast 3 hours of ur time travelling to and fro.
