Microchip Technology's Steve Sanghi, Part 1

13:00 | Kamla Bhatt | Oct 17th, 2007 6:10pm |

Arizona-based Microchip Technology is an important player in the microcontroller and analog semiconductor space. The company registered $1.039 billion in net sales for fiscal year 2007.

Yesterday, I spoke with Steve Sanghi, the CEO and the chairman of the board of directors of Microchip Technologies, in Bangalore, to find out about the company’s India plans.

Microchip Technologies started its India operations more than 10 years ago by opening a small sales office, and slowly expanded its presence. It now has about 500 customers. A few years ago, it opened a design center in Bangalore that works on IC design, mask layout and applications developments among other things. Bangalore is the hub for embedded development work in India. The company recently set up a call center and technical helpdesk for its domestic and international clients. Microchip has offices in Pune and New Delhi.

Steve was born and brought up in India and migrated to the U.S. when he was 20 years old.

Tags: microcontroller, analog semiconductor, Steve Sanghi

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