Marking 40 years in India, Texas Instruments opens a massive Bengaluru R&D hub. A milestone in India’s chip design timeline?
Texas Instruments has opened a new product research and development (R&D) centre in Bengaluru, marking four decades of operations in India. The 550,000-square-foot (approximately 51,096.67 square metres) site is designed to accelerate chip innovation.
It brings teams together in shared workspaces. The facility houses advanced labs for integrated circuit (IC) design. It also includes an end-to-end reliability lab to test chips under tough environmental conditions.
The centre was inaugurated by Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology (IT). Senior leaders from Texas Instruments attended the launch, too.
The company said the site will strengthen its ability to build new analogue and embedded processing technologies. It will also deepen support for India’s growing design community and customer base.
Vaishnaw said the investment underlines India’s role in global semiconductor design. He added that Texas Instruments has played a long-standing role in developing local engineering talent. The new facility, he said, fits the government’s push to grow an innovation-led economy and strengthen the electronics sector.
Santhosh Kumar, president and managing director of TI India, said the opening reflects both the company’s history in India and its long-term plans. He said teams in India contribute to product research used by customers worldwide. The company views local engineers as central to future advances in chips.
Texas Instruments was the first multinational to set up an R&D base in India in 1985. Since then, it has helped shape the country’s semiconductor design ecosystem. The firm now employs thousands across the country.
Furthermore, it has recently added a new sales office to work more closely with Indian customers. The Bengaluru centre expands its regional research footprint and signals further growth in India’s technology sector.
