'India set to become a tech and manufacturing leader'

The chip maker sees local R&D talent as its biggest strength

- SUDHIR CHOWDHARY

INTEL'S BETS ON INDIA HAVE PAID OFF, SAYS SANDRA RIVERA

IN AN ECOSYSTEM of a connected world, India is establishing its presence as a global innovation hub. Its potential for scaling innovations and digitalisation lies in its large and diverse talent pool, growing economy driven through conducive policies, and rapidly expanding technology sector. A key testimony to this is India's goal to ensure technology sector accounts for 20-25% of the country's GDP by 2025.

"India is a huge market and has been demonstrating its unique potential to scale and meet the moment. With the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and number of graduates coming out of India each year, the growing knowledge workforce, dynamic entrepreneurial culture, along with rapid digitalisation, it's both a market and an opportunity. India stands to become a technology and manufacturing leader in the world," said Sandra L Rivera, executive vice-president and general manager, Data Centre and AI Group, Intel."It's an exciting time to be here, it's a wonderful market for us to serve and the ecosystem to invest in," she told FE in a recent interview.

Bullish on India