eInfochips to set up design centre in Bangalore

Ahmedabad, Jul 10 (UNI) eInfochips today announced it would expand its leadership position in the silicon design and verification market by setting up its design centre in Bangalore.

The growing importance of Bangalore as the hub of captive design centres for large semiconductor companies with increased outsourcing requirements and large availability of talent pool, makes it attractive to set up the design center in Bangalore, a company release said here.

The new design centre spread over 6,200 sq ft will house more than 50 engineers by end of 2007 and eInfochips plans to increase the number to 250 engineers by 2010.

Currently eInfochips employs over 600 engineers across its 4 design centres in Ahmedabad and 2 design centers in Pune.

In the US, the company has offices in Sunnyvale, CA, Austin, TX, Chicago, Boston and New Jersey. It also started its operations in Japan about a year ago by opening a Japan subsidiary - Japan KK.

For other locations the company has appointed representatives and dealers in Taiwan, Korea, Israel, UK and the USA who are responsible for representing the company's products and services in the marketplace.

''We have successfully established ourselves as a leading electronic design services provider by virtue of our expertise, healthy customer list, skilled workforce and seasoned management team. We are at an inflection point where the company must leverage resources to aggressively expand revenue, accounts, geographies and infrastructure. Our strong customer base in Bangalore combined with access to Bangalore's existing talent pool and academic infrastructure makes it ideal to set-up design center in Bangalore,'' said eInfochips CEO Praful Shroff in the release.

''The Bangalore Design Center will focus on cutting edge ASIC/SOC and FPGA design. The company's existing silicon and product design practice with presence in Bangalore will enable eInfochips to help customers meet their time to market,'' said Mr Om Prakash, Silicon Group Head for eInfochips Bangalore.

eInfochips generated USD 15 million in revenues in the financial year 06-07 and is targeting 50 per cent growth in 2007-08, the release added.

UNI