More than two-thirds of all new state-of-the-art chip making facilities are coming up in Asia.
This reflects both the rapid growth of electronics manufacturing in Asia and the effectiveness of tax incentives and other assistance programs offered to attract high-tech investment in the region, said Tapan Joshi, vice president, marketing, eInfochips.
Talking about India's technology industry, Joshi said the way the chip design industry is growing there would be demand of at least 20,000 chip design engineers in the next two years. At present, there are only 8,000 to 10,000 practicing chip engineers and 18,000 computer and electronic engineer in the country.
"Technology boom in India is in the first phase. Nowadays, everything we are using on a day-to-day basis such as mobile phones, cameras, computer, digital diaries, have chips in their circuits. The demand of use technology driven items leads to surge the demand of chip engineers and industry estimates say that we need 100,000 engineers every year two years down the line," Joshi said.
When asked what eInfochips and industry people are doing for the growing demand of chip engineers, Joshi said, "The industry need to play a proactive role to develop quality chip engineers as the fresh graduate chips engineers are not up to the mark due to lack of practical knowledge and exposure."
He said that there are 100 chip design companies in India and 115 system design companies and six companies who design both chip and system.
To meet the demand, eInfochips has developed the curriculum for the M Tech programme at Nirma Institute of Technology and represented on the board of directors of studies that reviews course curriculum for diploma and undergraduate courses at Nirma Institute of Technology and DDIT, Nadiad, said Joshi.
"We regularly participate in STTP (short term training programmes) funded by Department of Electronics, Government of India, wherein faculty conducts the lectures at NIT and actively involved in reviewing the curriculum for VLSI at Government College of Engineering, Modassa and also conducts lectures, workshops and internship programmes for students of NIT, DDIT, UV Patel College of Engineering, Mehsana, L D College of Engineering and Government College of Engineering, Modasa," he added.
About eInfochips, Joshi said that the company has decided to go public in next two years and developed the curriculum for M Tech program at Nirma Institute of Technology.
eInfochips has enough reserve to sustain but we are planning to go public in next two years. He declined to comment on the size of the issue though said that many private companies approached eInfochips for investment.