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Freescale design center launched

Freescale Semiconductor inaugurated its 3,00,000 square-foot semiconductor design center in Noida as part of its ongoing expansion plans for India. Over the past two years the company has significantly ramped up hiring in India, acquired two new campuses and invested about $50 million in its Indian operations.

“India is a vital part of Freescale’s long-term growth strategy and we are committed to growing our operations here,” Freescale Chairman and CEO Michel Mayer told a crowd of local dignitaries and company employees at the opening ceremony. He added, “The India design centers support all three of Freescale’s business groups, playing a key role in providing critical hardware and software expertise to next-generation wireless, networking, consumer, multimedia and automotive applications.”

Freescale’s Noida campus houses nearly 700 employees and focuses on System-on-Chip (SoC) integration and intellectual property (IP) design. Last year the company opened a new 1,00,000-square-foot software design center and sales office in Bangalore. This centre employs more than 250 engineers focused on advanced technologies in the wireless and networking markets.

Headquartered in Noida, Freescale India develops leading edge hardware and software designs for the wireless, networking and automotive markets. The Indian team works on digital and mixed signal integrated circuits (ICs), low-tier to high-tier processor cores, Starcore-based digital signal processors and system-on-chip designs based on the Power architecture technology. Founded in 1998, Freescale India has grown to 900 employees and filed 33 patents in the past two years.