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Intel to strengthen ties with India's SaskenImran Qureshi in Bangalore Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, will strengthen its relation with India's Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd in next generation wireless services. This was decided during a visit of Intel president and CEO, Craig Barrett, to the Sasken headquarters in Bangalore last week, the Sasken chief said. "Future collaboration for joint research and development would cover 3G and the wireless space based on the Intel platform," said Sasken chairman and CEO Rajiv C Mody. Sasken is a leading provider of telecommunications software services and solutions to network equipment manufacturers, mobile terminal vendors and semiconductor companies. "Silicon and software go hand in hand. They will bring semiconductor technology and we will bring our knowledge in wireless and broadband telecom. We would be creating the Internet Protocol part of it," said Mody. The two would also be working jointly on optical wireless solutions for personal area networks and multimedia content retrieval systems. "We are yet to get into the details of a joint development team and other aspects of the deal." But there was no discussion on increased investment in Sasken by Intel. Contrary to the southward looking telecom industry, Sasken technologies does not see such a trend in the research and development sector. "We are on track to beat the Nasscom projection of 40 per cent growth this fiscal." The National Association of Software and Services Companies is India's main software industry body. "We have a hybrid model that focuses on the telecom space and we do services on the network side with over 40 clients," said Swaminathan Krishnan, the company's vice president and head of worldwide marketing. "We relocate teams from services to the product development side whenever necessary. And, we are certainly not looking at downsizing our team of 1,057 colleagues," said Mody. Indo-Asian News Service |
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