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Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 13 2019, @04:51AM   
from the competition++ dept.

takyon writes:

Google is poaching Qualcomm and Intel engineers for its new chip design team

Google is expanding its efforts to design its own smartphone and data center chips by building a new team of engineers dedicated to the project in Bengaluru, an up-and-coming semiconductor site in the capital of the south Indian state of Karnataka, according to a report from Reuters. The new team, which Reuters says includes at least 16 engineers and four recruiters and will likely continue to increase in headcount, is the latest sign that the tech industry's biggest players are trying to rid themselves of reliance on the traditional chip business. Among the new hires are engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, Reuters reports.

Also at Wccftech.

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• Re:"Up-and-coming"? (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @05:41AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @05:41AM (#800511)

  Maybe the author of the article didn't recognize it by it's de-westernized official name, but if you feel the need to explain what and where Bangalore is in a tech article, in a way that suggests you haven't heard of the city before, maybe you shouldn't be taken seriously writing about technology.

  To be fair, the name as presented does look suspiciously like something a chinese knock-off company might use.

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