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Priyanka Vyas

Product development with premier academic institutions

New Delhi March 23 NYSE-listed semiconductor company STMicroelectronics is planning to tap talent at premier Indian engineering institutes to develop products for its future business requirements. This is in line with its global strategy to develop products at the university research labs, apart from its own research and development centres. While many research centres in India work closely with academic universities, the partnership has been usually limited to facilitating research and training rather than jointly developing products for commercial use.

"We have partnered with some of the Chinese Universities to produce micro processors. In some of the European countries too, significant product development takes place at the university labs. So we are looking to extend our partnership with Indian technology institutes to come out with products that would cater to the future needs for our global business," said Mr Vivek Sharma, Vice President and Director, India Design Centre for the emerging markets. STMicroelectronics has partnered with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) to make micro controller products that has applications such as global positioning system among others. In India, it has recently announced partnerships with IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Kanpur and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore to set up its research labs.

STMicroelectronics' Indian design centre has already been granted 50 patents from the United States Patent office. It has filed applications for 250 original inventions from its India design centre. India accounts for 15 per cent of its global research and development in VLSI (very large scale integrated design) and software.

Commenting on the plans to develop chips with applications relevant to the Indian market, Mr Sharma said that the company was waiting for electronics manufacturing in India to scale up which in turn would drive demand in the domestic market. Until then it would produce chips tailored for the emerging markets.

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