INDIA struggles to fill TALENT VOID.

The article reports on the growth of integrated circuit design in India as of November 2006. The growth are attributed to several factors such as the increased globalization of the microchip industry, a shortage of engineers and growing costs in the West, and qualified talent and lower salaries in the country. According to Greg Delagi, Texas Instrument's vice president and general manager of digital signal processing systems, India is more advanced than China in some areas such as center design, process nodes and Internet Protocol protection laws similar to that of the West, but lags behind in broad electrics ecosystem. INSET: Wage spiral.