Taipei Times
Date: Sep 21, 2016
By: Lisa Wang / Staff reporter, in TAINAN

Qualcomm Inc, the world’s No. 1 mobile phone chipmaker, yesterday said India is a rapidly growing market, adding that it is collaborating with Taiwanese firms to pursue growth opportunities there.

“India is fast-growing. We already read public documents on India and how it is growing [in terms of] the population and their earnings and spending capability,” Qualcomm Technologies Inc president of Asia-Pacific and India Jim Cathey told reporters on the sidelines of a news conference in Tainan to launch an education program backed by wireless technology.

Qualcomm Technologies is a wholly-owned chip designing arm of the San Diego-based chip manufacturer.

Like most developing nations, India faces the challenge of building sound infrastructure to support electronics designing and manufacturing capabilities, Cathey said.     [FULL  STORY]