Dell signs deal to locate plant in India
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Dell Inc., the world's biggest personal computer maker, signed an agreement Thursday with the government of Tamil Nadu to locate a manufacturing plant in the southern Indian state to help serve new clients in the fast-growing computer market
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(InfoWorld) - DellÂ inaugurated Thursday a new research and development (R&D) facility in Bangalore, India, that can house up to 1,000 staff. The new facility is in line with Dell's plans toÂ make India a hubÂ for the development of enterprise products such as servers, storage, and software. Dell already has 600 engineers working in Bangalore on systems software, hardware design, and validation and testing for its enterprise products. The Bangalore facility is the company's largest R&D center outside the U.S. for enterprise products, Brad Anderson, senior vice president of Dell's business product group, said Thursday. Other Dell R&D centers in Asia are in Shanghai, Taipei, and Singapore. While the Shanghai center focuses on desktop design, the Taipei center does notebook design, and the center in Singapore works on Dell's printing and imaging products. Starting with software development in 2001, Dell has set up groups in Bangalore specialized in systems software, hardware design, and testing. The aim is to do end-to-end product development in India, said Vivek Mansingh, country manager and head of the R&D center. A dual-socket server is currently being designed entirely from India. Dell did not however disclose when the 1,000 staff would arrive at its new 200,000 square feet facility. The company has so far invested $150 million in setting up its R&D operations in India. Besides its R&D operations, Dell also runs call centers from various locations in India to support its customers worldwide. Its manufacturing plant in Chennai in south India is scheduled to start production in July.
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Royal Philips Electronics has signed a services contract with computer maker Dell Inc., which will manage the electronics company&#39;s desktop environment.
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DellÂ has selected Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu in southern India, as the location for its first PC manufacturing plant in the country.
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The Canadian aluminum company has agreed to be purchased by the Indian company Hindalco Industries.
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Computer maker Dell Inc. said Friday it has agreed to buy The Networked Storage Co., a privately held data-storage consulting firm based in the United Kingdom.
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Hindalco Industries of India sai that it would buy a North American rival, Novelis, for $3.6 billion, another sign that cross-border deal making is heating up in India.
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Dell has won a large global contract from Dutch electronics giant Koninklijke Philips ElectronicsÂ to provide hardware and managed desktop services.
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Dell Inc. says it opened a new support center this week in Xiamen, China, for business customers who buy servers and storage equipment.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. has snagged a fifth Dell Inc. executive in two weeks to help run its business in Asia.
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Dell has announced the availability of virtualisation services.
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(InfoWorld) - General Electric has selected Indian outsourcing company HCL Technologies to set up and operate GE's development centers in India and China. HCL, of Noida, near Delhi, will set up and operate the centers over three years, HCL said on Monday. It declined to give specifics, but such centers often develop software for use internally by companies. Many multinational companies have tapped Indian expertise for setting up development centers, hiring staff and managing these centers. Under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, for example, the Indian partner sets up the facility, hires staff, and manages the development work for the foreign company until it decided to make the operation its own subsidiary. British insurance company AvivaÂ announced last month that by January 2008 it will move over 5,000 business process outsourcing (BPO) staff from Indian service providers to Aviva Global Services, its offshore division in India. The company had executed BOT agreements with its suppliers. GE, of Fairfield, Connecticut, already outsources software development to a number of Indian outsourcing companies, including Tata Consultancy Services and Satyam Computer Services.
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Dell is moving closer to announcing plans to build a new factory in the United States. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker, is indeed eyeing a spot in North Carolina, as previously reported, for a plant that would
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InfoWorld - Dell has signed a deal with a U.K. mobile phone retailer to distribute free laptops with the purchase of a broadband Internet access subscription, continuing the company&#39;s&#160;push into the retail market.
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Dell Inc. has signed a deal with a U.K. mobile phone retailer to distribute free laptops with the purchase of a broadband Internet access subscription, continuing the company&#39;s push into the retail market.
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Japanese automaker Nissan Motor plans to build a car plant in the Indian port city of Chennai with its French partner Renault SA and local firm Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd, a news report said Saturday.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard is setting up a second computer manufacturing facility in India to help it meet surging demand in the country. The facility, in Pantnagar in the north-eastern state of Uttaranchal, will be able to churn out 300,000 computers per month when it starts operations in March next year. It will manufacture HPâs desktop PCs, notebook PCs, workstations, and servers, and provide employment directly or indirectly to about 1,000 staff when it's fully operational, HP said on Wednesday. It's being set up with an investment of about $20 million. HP, of Palo Alto, California, has had a facility in Bangalore in south India since 1999, from which it produces about 1 million computers each year. âWe had run out of capacity in Bangalore and the choice was between expanding in Bangalore or setting up a facility elsewhere,â said Ravi Swaminathan, vice president of the Personal Systems Group at HP India. Having a facility in Uttaranchal will enable HP to service customers quickly and more cost-effectively in the north and north-east, where the market is booming for HP, according to Swaminathan. The company is also getting tax incentives from the local state government of Uttaranchal, he added. HP rivalÂ Dell announced last monthÂ that it had picked Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu in southern India, as the location for its first PC manufacturing plant in the country. Dellâs facility will make 400,000 units a year when it gets operational in the first half of next year, the Round Rock, Texas, computer maker said. Both the Dell and HP plants will serve primarily domestic demand. Sales of PCs in India were over 4.6 million in the year to March, according to research firm IDC India. HP leads in the Indian PC market, mainly on strong sales of its notebook computers, according to IDC. It had PC market share of 20 percent in the second quarter of this year, followed by an Indian vendor, HCL Infosystems, which had a 14 percent, and Lenovo Group with 10 percent, IDC said.