less cabling and the end device can be made more compact and then theres the soc process where the ip cores are brought together as a single chip the challenge here is to ensure they all work together and the soc runs the applications the chip is designed for finally theres software on top of these to put soc devices into action and control themjagadish says amd has huge teams in india for ip soc and software india has over 1200 of amds 9500 employees papermaster said the opportunity engineers in india have to work on almost all aspects of chip development makes the company a particularly attractive place overall we find the skills to be very very good here but particularly around two areas vlsi very large scale integration which is the design of the semiconductor devices needed for high performance processors and also software development both of those areas are critical to us to fuel our future he saidindia also has a large software team for amds gpu graphics processing unit which are used in the gaming consoles of sony and microsoft and which compete with nvidia the plan is to build a large gpu soc team as well in india jagadish saidis india moving towards creating architects who define the chip we have made good progress over the years to build that skillset jagadish said and added that the plan is to strengthen it in the next five years there is immense opportunity she said