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Offshore Product Design: The Next Generation of Global SourcingAccording to META Group, global sourcing of product development will no longer be an optional strategy by 2007-08. With offshore outsourcing being accepted as a key strategy to stay competitive in the globalized economy, the production cycle for technology-centere d products will require global resources and global delivery.
Wipro's SoC center (based out of India) provided extensive SoC integration activity, along with customization and development of design modules and helped in 20% reduction in product realization thus improving client's time to market for its chipset with a first silicon success rollout.
"Next-generation products will be developed with the globalization model already deployed by large companies, and will extend down to regional and specialty players -- enabled by offshore outsourcing," said Dean Davison, vice president and director at META Group. "Indeed, products developed without global resourcing will be late to market at uncompetitive costs by 2008/09."
Commenting on the findings Ramesh Emani - President, Embedded & Product Engineering stated that "The study validates the trends that we are witnessing in our business. Wipro, with its vast expertise spanning over two decades in domains like computing platforms, semiconductors, automotive electronics, consumer electronics and industrial automati
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