Chipset major MediaTek announced a smartphone design training program to develop talent for the mobilephone industry in India.
The training program — in association with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Indian Cellular Association (ICA) and the Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA), Taiwan, will propel the Make in India initiative.
MediaTek will share its smartphone design expertise, and leverage its global ecosystem to support the program.
The two-and-a-half-month program, scheduled to start later this year, provides hands-on training to managers and senior engineers from India on efficient planning and execution of handset design projects. The guidance and education will give engineers expertise to advance handset design in India.
“We appreciate the effort the Indian Government is making towards building a global manufacturing base for the electronics sector in the country,” said Ming-Kai Tsai, chairman and CEO of MediaTek.
“Hardware design in the handset industry, especially integration of key components, is lacking in India so the idea of this program is to pick professionals working in the hardware domain and further train them in handset specific design to narrow the current gap in the local industry,” said Aruna Sundararajan, secretary of MeitY.
This training program will help bring Taiwanese expertise in mobile phone system integration to India.
About 50 professionals, with at least five years of experience in Research and Development (R&D) in electronics, will be selected from key handset makers across the country to take part in the training program.
MediaTek will train engineers in R&D competence and design project management. The company will coordinate with key component companies to be part of the training module with hands-on instruction.
In 2014, MediaTek invested $350 million to expand its business and establish an R&D facility in Bengaluru. MediaTek employs 500 people in India and will triple the number to 1,500 in three years. MediaTek has provided $100 million funding to companies in the fields of semiconductors, IoT, FinTech, e-commerce and network applications.
