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IBM opens technology design centre
Circuit EC / Mumbai
IBM Corporation has announced the establishment
of a new centre in Bangalore, to provide technology design services
for advanced chips, cards and systems to companies in India and
across Asia. The centre will coordinate and leverage regional engineering,
research and technology design services delivery skills from several
IBM locations to design a wide variety of new electronic gear for
customers. These designs will range from complex chips to entire
systems.
IBM, through its Engineering & Technology
Services division, helps companies in a variety of industries design
innovative products. With this addition in Bangalore, the organisation
is approaching 1,000 engineers. In addition to India, technology
services design centres are located in the United States at Burlington,
Vt., Endicott, N.Y., Rochester, Minn., Austin, Texas and Raleigh,
N.C.; in Europe, at Mainz, Germany; in Japan at Yamato. Service
offerings from this new business initiative fall into four basic
categories:
- Component Solutions: System on a chip
design services; custom circuit design services;
- System Solutions: System architecture
and design services; power, packaging and cooling solutions;
- Technology Consulting: IP management
consulting; manufacturing consulting; verification and on demand
‘e-design’ services;
- Mission Transfer Services: Enabling
a company to focus on its core competencies while turning over
entire engineering missions to IBM.
“The company’s design capabilities
are the broadest in the industry,” said Dr Uday Shukla, director,
Technology Group Lab, India. The India centre will enable IBM to
leverage a vast and talented Indian IT talent pool, competent in
VLSI and embedded software design to create quality and innovative
solutions for customers, he added.
Dr Shukla said the centre’s value
proposition is all about access, giving clients a portal into IBM,
leveraging system design expertise, best-practice design methodologies
for affordable custom chips and a variety of skills and talent that
can be made available on demand.
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