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Intel Developing New Chip Designs in India
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."
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.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
Those came from the Israel development center, not India.
This guy's the limit!
Consider this: If you lose 7.5% of these jobs a year in ten years, 75% of them are gone.
.925**n) * 100 percent after n years, so with n = 10, that's a hair over 54 percent.
Ummm...actually, you lose (1 -