Intersil Corporation expands India operations

Opens design centre in Hyd.

Intersil Corporation, a US-based player in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog (HPA) semiconductors, has further expanded its operations in India by opening a design centre in Hyderabad, its second in the country with the first being in Bangalore.

The new design centre, to be called Intersil Analog Services, will augment the ongoing product development efforts at the Bangalore centre, addressing some of the industry's fastest-growing markets such as flat panel displays, cell phones, handheld systems and notebooks, Roger Levinson, vice-president (engineering), said here on Thursday. The centre has an employee strength of 40.

"Our India centres have filed about six patents during the past two years, while four to five are in the preparation stage," he said, adding they planned to leverage their Indian operations to accelerate the entire growth of the company.

Intersil, which posted global revenues of $757 million (around Rs 3,028 crore) last year, expects its India operations to contribute $15 million (Rs 60 crore) this year, and eventually touch $75 million (Rs 300 crore) by 2012, he added.

Intersil, whose product strategy is focused on broadening its portfolio of application-specific standard products (ASSP) and general purpose proprietary products (GPPP) to serve four high-growth markets "� high-end consumer, computing, industrial and communications "� has a 40-odd product family. It employs 1,4000 globally.