The Hindu Business Line : Wipro launches operations at Kochi facility

SOFTWARE major Wipro Technologies on Friday announced the launch of operations at its facility here, by moving a Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) design project to Kochi.

"First set of projects and people have moved in... They have started working on live projects with customers," said Mr Ramesh N. Emani, President, Embedded and Product Engineering Solutions of Wipro Technologies.

To begin with, Wipro has sent 15 people to the Kochi unit, located at the Infopark at Kakkanadu. Over the next couple of years, it plans to have 300 people at Kochi.

The company has acquired 25 acres of land at the Infopark to build its campus. Its construction will begin in the first quarter of this year.

Mr Emani said the company would hire professionals from the State for its Kochi facility. "We have recruited lot of people from this region for our product engineering division. There is also large intake to VLSI division from Kerala," he said.

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