“In Bangalore, we have about 2,000 people and we’re just acquiring a new building to grow and make that even bigger and better,” Peter Stephens, director of government relations, Arm, said at the CII International Conference on Artificial Intelligence without disclosing further details.
“If you have in your hand a smartphone, then I’m pretty sure that it will have a little bit of Cambridge and a little bit of Bangalore in it somewhere because the architecture that’s on it will have been designed and verified in those two cities.”
The company is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.
Stephens also chairs the UK-India Tech Forum, a joint initiative of industry bodies Nasscom and techUK.
The forum’s role is to bridge the two ecosystems and develop a “highway of influence” to support and provide a platform for industries to engage with each other and with the governments.
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“Governments, naturally, around the world are all grappling with the nature of all these incredible technological developments that have happened recently,” Stephens said.The forum also aims to help identify key areas of partnerships across artificial intelligence, quantum computing, telecommunications, biotech and others, leveraging India’s skills base and potential, he added.
