Intel in chip designing deal with 4 Indian firms

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| The companies will be undertaking application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) designing and embedded designing for Intel. |
| Jeniffer Rajan, spokesperson of Intel India, confirmed that Intel has invested in some companies, but refused to give further information. |
| Wipro, at its ASIC design centre, will execute projects that range from architecture and design to implementation, synthesis, physical design and silicon validation. |
| Wipro has signed an agreement with Intel for ASIC designs in 0.13u or tighter geometry, design sizes in multi-million gates and pin-counts in excess of 1,200 pins, sources said. |
| The agreement with Sasken Technologies is with the aim of nurturing technology for local use, said sources. The Nortel network had also invested almost $10 million in Sasken in April. |
| Mistral too has offered Intel 'Board and FPGA Designs', a concept of a fully functional board. Mistral's product will support processor inter-communications and high-speed I/O and memory access operations. "Mistral also has many other project deals with Intel," claimed sources. |
| eInfochips, which recently purchased Megma's five implementation softwares, has also offered comprehensive design and verification of systems on chip for computing to Intel in Banglore. Chipping in |
First Published: Dec 13 2005 | 12:00 AM IST