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Intel Developing New Chip Designs in India

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-thats-good-for-them-then-isn't-it dept.

An anonymous person noted that "Intel Corporation, the $39-billion largest chip maker in the world, is developing new chip designs and processors at its India development centre to roll out the next generation of notebooks and servers, says a top company official."

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  1. The TFA is more accurate by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Informative

    TFA clearly says

    "is working on new chipsets for the small form-factor notebook ...Validation work on server processors 5300 and 7100"

    As much as I'd love India to lose the cheap indian labour tag and actually find its place in the R&D world - this could be summed up as premature ejaculation. Validation work (aka quality assurance) is not really what I'd consider worthy of mention, but chipsets are indeed a step forward - if indeed they are being designed here, not merely run through QA.

    People here are comparitively cheap, but that does not automatically mean that "You get what you pay for", unless you do shop around for a bargain.

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  2. Re:Is it really for cost savings? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Those came from the Israel development center, not India.

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  3. Re:CPU design goals by misleb · · Score: 2, Informative
    It would be great if the new cheap were designed with operating systems and end users in mind.
    There is a number of things that would be much better if the CPU supported some special instruction. Every OS class student has been tought this.


    Such as? Users get the virtualization instruction and SSE3. Do you have more special instructions in mind?

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  4. Re:A question many Intel USA Engs will soon be ask by jejones · · Score: 4, Informative

    Consider this: If you lose 7.5% of these jobs a year in ten years, 75% of them are gone.

    Ummm...actually, you lose (1 - .925**n) * 100 percent after n years, so with n = 10, that's a hair over 54 percent.

  5. Re:Is it really for cost savings? by joe_bruin · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's a simple answer, and it's not about white and brown.

    Israel has a high standard of living in the ballpark of European and North American nations. Opening up a development plant in Israel, or Germany, or Ireland is not thought of as "outsourcing" because there is not a (significant) cost savings versus American employees, it's simply a matter of going to where the talent is. Outsourcing to India or China, on the other hand, is seen as a pure cost move because of those nations' considerable cost difference. While there may be many qualified Indians, the perception is always that America jobs were transitioned to India because of cost. People don't have that impression from jobs in Israel, because the view is that the jobs there are being done there because of short supply of talent in the US.