ZDNet India is carrying an interesting story on Intel's expanding investment and development interests in India.
In India Intel does not have a lot of advanced technology partners but wherever an opportunity turns up, it invests. In the Silicon Valley tradition, there are startups that work with each other, with larger companies and together they bring about monumental technology shifts.
A prime example of funding futuristic research at an academic institution is the Tenet group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, which is well on the way to delivering low cost connectivity and internet access to India's rural masses. Intel is funding the Tenet group's research in the digitisation of radio.
A good example of that would be its investment in Sasken. "We have designed silicon for high-end cellphones, smart phones. Sasken does work in global system for mobile (GSM) general packet radio switching (GPRS) communication protocol stacks. This is very complementary to our silicon roadmap."
The full story is available here.