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Microsoft: The software titan employs 150 people in Beijing as part of its Microsoft Research unit. The unit has a worldwide staff of roughly 700--most of them in Redmond, Wash. Separate R&D centers in Hyderabad, India, and Shanghai, China, have rosters of 250 and 150, respectively. Other employees in India include 100 internal application developers in Hyderabad and about 200 customer support employees in Bangalore.
Intel: The chipmaker conducts 15 percent to 25 percent of its R&D outside the United States. Its worldwide R&D head count is more than 5,000, with about 900 in Bangalore, where it expects to add 1,100 employees by the end of next year. It also has research facilities in China, Malaysia and Russia, among other countries.
Hewlett-Packard: The computer maker's research division, HP Labs, runs facilities in Bangalore, Tokyo, and Haifa, Israel. Combined, the sites have fewer than 100 workers. HP Labs employs 700 worldwide, with most in Palo Alto, Calif. The research in India focuses on technologies for emerging economies such as India and China, according to HP.
America Online: The Internet giant has hired 12 software engineers in Bangalore and plans to expand that work force to about 50 over several months. It began laying the groundwork for the operation at about the time it laid off 450 software developers in California. AOL has also set up a call center operation in Bangalore.
Sun Microsystems: The server computer specialist has R&D operations in Beijing and Bangalore.
Yahoo: The Web portal company performs R&D in Bangalore. Yahoo also has offices in Shanghai and Beijing.
Network Appliance:The data storage gear maker has about 50 engineers doing development work in India. That Indian staff, which makes up about 5 percent of the companywide engineering team, is slated to grow by more than 100 by 2005. A similar expansion is also planned for Network Appliance's 20 or so customer support employees in India.
Oracle: The software maker has R&D operations in six centers around the world, with hubs in India and China. Oracle has about 5,000 employees in India, including workers focused on the domestic market. On the same basis, its head count in China is about 500.
Advanced Micro Devices: The chipmaker plans to set up an engineering center in Bangalore, with about 120 chip designers and development engineers working there by the end of next year. AMD plans to pump about $5 million into the facility over the next three years.
3Com: The networking specialist plans to open an engineering design center in Hyderabad. The center will work on voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software features and application development, while teams in the United States are focused on VoIP architecture and product development. Company representatives said the center should eventually employ 50 to 100 workers, and a similar number of workers will be added in the United States. 3Com has also set up a new product design house in Taiwan.
