AMD's announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark
Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started
Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.
Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman
Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra.
Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been
courting investments into India's nascent chip sector to
establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub.
AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru
by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles
within five years.
"Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in
delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that
support AMD customers worldwide," Papermaster said.
The new 500,000-square-foot (55,555 square yards) campus will
increase AMD's office footprint in India to 10 locations. It
already has more than 6,500 employees in the country.
From personal computers to data centers, AMD chips are used in a
wide range of devices. The Santa Clara, California-based firm is
also working on an artificial intelligence chip that will take
on market leader Nvidia Corp.
Unlike its top rival Intel, AMD outsources production of chips
it designs to third-party manufacturers like Taiwan's TSMC.
TSMC and the South Korea's Samsung are among the elite few
chipmakers globally to have mastered cutting-edge chipmaking, a
technology many nations are now vying for to avoid supply chain
shocks, such as faced during the pandemic.
India in 2021 unveiled a $10 billion incentive program for the
chip sector, but the plan has floundered as no company has so
far managed to get clearance for setting up a fabrication plant,
the centerpiece to Modi's ambitions.
Other investments in India include a multi-year $400 million
plan by U.S. chip equipment maker Applied Materials in June to
set up an engineering center, and chipmaker Micron' $825 million
investment in a semiconductor testing and packaging unit in
Gujarat.
(Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Gandhinagar, Gujarat; Editing
by Aditya Kalra and Sonali Paul)
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