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Global product engineering to India grows 40% in last 3 years

The recent report by Booz & Company with Nasscom shows continued growth in global engineering predominantly to India. Overall spending on ER&D increased 12% from $980 billion in 2008 to $1.1 trillion in 2009 and is expected to expand to $1.4 trillion by 2020. India, a pioneer and leader in the global sourcing industry, remains [...]

Posted 20 July 2010 † Subhash Nair § Offshore Outsourcing § Outsourcing § Research & Development ‡ Comments (0) °

Multicore chips: Need for software re-engineering?

I was briefly at the Multicore Expo last week and there was some talk about programming effectively for multicore chipsets. However most of the vendors exhibiting seemed to shrug it off as a non-issue. Their explanation being that their OS or platform would handle the scheduling processes and utilization of cores from existing software as-is [...]

Posted 25 March 2009 † Subhash Nair § Embedded Systems § Offshore Outsourcing § Product Development ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Top 10 Outsourced Product Development Companies: 2009

Global Services and neoIT, through their Global Services 100 Study, recently announced the top outsourced product development service providers for 2009. Symphony Services was named the Best Performer. The full report is available at http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/Content/general200903036094.asp. Have you worked with any of these firms? What is your experience and recommendations when it comes to outsourcing product [...]

Posted 16 March 2009 † Subhash Nair § Outsourcing § Product Development ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,