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Global Reach
customers—Broadcom, Infineon, Samsung, TI—were also increasingly using India as a global
design center.
Following the business and building a local base, in December 2003, Magma launched an IC
Excellence Initiative in India, donating IC design software and launching an IC Physical Design
PG Diploma Course with VLSI training institutions, including IIT-Madras, IIT-Kharagpur, Birla
Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, and Amrita Institute. In 2005, it established a Magma
Design Automation India subsidiary in Bangalore and added partnerships with IIT-Hyderabad
and Anna University. The Anna relationship led to completion of a new CDMA telecom receiver
IC. It also has partner relationships with the Karnataka state government and with Science and
Technology Parks of India-Bangalore.
In 2006, Magma’s acquisition of Knights Technology, a developer of yield management and failure
analysis software, added a Mumbai facility, and Magma opened a Noida center. In early 2007,
it expanded its Bangalore operations into new 40,000-square foot quarters. The company currently
has about 200 employees in India.
As the world’s leading supplier of semiconductor equipment and related services,
Santa Clara-based Applied Materials Inc. has been in China since 1984, and its Asia
activities are spread primarily among the PRC, Taiwan and Singapore. Given the fact
that it only established a foothold in India beginning in 2001, however, its presence there has
grown dramatically.
Its India Global Development Center in Bangalore’s International Technology Park and its R&D
center in Chennai together employ approximately 1,000 people involved in software development,
engineering design and services, and business and information technology applications.
It has strategic partnerships with Satyam Computer, Wipro, Mindtek, and TCS, and it has been
active in university collaborations with IIT-Delhi, IIT-Mumbai and IIS-Bangalore.
Collaborations have included research programs and graduate fellowships at IIT-Delhi in semiconductor
processing and electromechanical engineering, as well as a November 2007 donation
of $7.5 million in equipment to help establish an Applied Materials Nanotechnology Laboratory at
IIT-Mumbai’s government-funded Centre of Excellence in Nanotechnology. Applied Materials has
also sponsored projects at IIT-Mumbai in solar and fuel cells and chemical synthesis, and it has
both hosted Mumbai faculty and graduate students at its Santa Clara facility and lent engineers to
work at the Nanotech Centre.
Applied Materials has been in talks with both SemIndia and Hindustan Semiconductor about
providing equipment to their proposed fab plant projects, once those plans become viable. Like
Cypress and other firms in the chip sector, Applied Materials is leveraging its extensive silicon expertise
to branch into the solar power field amid sluggish chip and flat-panel display orders. Its first
India contract was signed in March 2007 with Moser Baer India to develop a fully integrated production
line to manufacture 40-megawatt, thin-film solar panels in Delhi..
On the social front, Applied Materials partnered with the American India Foundation in 2005 to
open a Digital Equalizer computer learning center at Government High School B Narayanapura—
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