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Mr Badri Aggarwal (left), President, Bharti Infotel Ltd, with Mr Anand Chandrashekhar, Vice-President & General Manager, Mobile Platform group, Intel at a press conference in New Delhi on Friday. -- Kamal Narang

Bangalore , Dec. 12

A PART of the software development for Intel's next generation mobiles platform is being developed in India. This would , include the processor, chipset and the wireless component to be co-developed by Intel's Indian and American teams, said Mr Anand Chandrashekar, Vice-President, Mobile Platforms Group, Intel Corp.

As of now, a small part of the chipset work on Sonoma, the next version of Intel's Centrino, slated for launch in the second half of 2004, is happening at Intel's India centre, he said. Intel has about 1,200 people in India.

The new mobileplatform — codename not divulged — would be the successor to the Sonoma, and be co-developed from Intel's India development facility, he said.

The Centrino mobile technology's ramp-up was ahead of prejections, Mr Chandrashekar said, though he did not give the numbers. The Centrino ramp-up outpaced the Pentium 4 and the Sonoma would outperform the Centrino on all vectors, he said. In India too, notebook sales were rising and the company expected sales of its wi-fi supporting Centrino sales in India to peak in 2005, said Mr Ketan Sampat, President, Intel Technology (I).

With the increase in the number of global hotspots, Intel's plans to certify over 24,000 hotspots as `Centrino hotspots' was aimed at validating the architecture apart from the w-lan access, Mr Chandrashekar said.

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