Qualcomm Applied sciences, group common supervisor for automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, Nakul Duggal, advised PTI that the corporate is investing closely in India to assist native automotive firms.
“We construct a variety of modules. These modules are sometimes inbuilt Taiwan, or China, or Korea, however we at the moment are actively working in India to localise this. We, in fact, associate with our Tier 1 ecosystem, such that as they transfer their manufacturing to India, we’ve got been supporting them,” he stated.
Duggal stated that Qualcomm is a fabless firm, which implies it designs the chips however does not manufacture them.
“For us, it is actually about with the ability to create alternatives in our provide chain to have the ability to direct that (manufacture),” he stated.
Qualcomm has roughly 22,000 staff, or 60 per cent of its workforce, in India.
Duggal stated that the corporate has an area group to assist home automotive producers.
Qualcomm has been bullish on chipsets for automobiles, particularly electric vehicles. The corporate has partnered with all the foremost automotive OEMs (authentic gear producers), together with Tata Motors, Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai, to supply them with chipsets for modernising vehicles.
It has the Snapdragon Elite chipset platform for telematics, infotainment and driver help, together with ADAS (Superior Driver Help Techniques).
Duggal stated that in 2026, there’ll most likely be a dozen autos that can deploy its Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Experience Elite SoC (System on Chip), which had been introduced in October 2024 and delivered to prospects in early 2025.
He stated that India has a considerable home footprint encompassing each home and international automakers that manufacture domestically.
“There’s a big want for constructing merchandise that cater to the wants of the Indian area. Fairly than bringing in a product that’s constructed for a worldwide buyer, construct a product for an area buyer. That necessitates for an OEM the necessity to have engineering functionality, artistic functionality, to truly take into consideration the wants of the native area, and we’re beginning to see that occur,” he stated.
Duggal stated constructing an automotive product for the native market will generate a aggressive benefit, and China has benefited from this pattern.
The automotive section of the corporate accounts for round 10 per cent of its international income, which is round $3.6 billion to $3.8 billion.
The corporate has set a goal to double the overall income from the automotive enterprise to about $8 billion by 2029.
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