EETimes.com - India's HCL Tech to set up PowerPC design center

EETimes.com - India's HCL Tech to set up PowerPC design center: "BANGALORE, India — HCL Technologies Ltd. has acquired the right to use and sub-license IBM Corp.'s PowerPC and PowerPC 440 embedded microprocessor cores and some specific peripheral cores.

HCL (New Delhi) will use the license rights to establish itself as the first Power Architecture design center outside an IBM business line. Plans call for the center to expand power Architecture designs in more applications such as networking, wireless and consumer devices.

The pact will enable HCL to offer original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) a range of Power Architecture system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, including sub-licensing of the IBM PowerPC 405 and PowerPC 440 embedded microprocessor cores. HCL plans to provide customers access to high-performance peripheral cores with a native CoreConnect interface, the open system bus architecture of IBM.

“This alliance helps HCL further expand as a design house,' said Divakar Maddipatla, corporate vice president and head of HCL's semiconductor practice. 'We are excited about the opportunity to offer Power Architecture-based end-to-end design solutions to OEMs.'

HCL already provides system design solutions including VLSI and hardware designs to the consumer, telecoms and storage domains. It is among the top software solutions providers in India and is part of the $2.7 billion HCL Enterprise.

“IBM’s goal is to make Power Architecture solutions as pervasive and as open as possible. This strategy applies not only to our architecture, but extends to our ecosystem of alliance associates and our routes to market,” said Ron Martino, director of Power products at IBM."