India, Oct. 28 -- In its 37-year presence in India, Intel has invested nearly $11 billion in the country across research, development, and engineering. It is no longer just that, as Gokul V. Subramaniam, Intel India president and vice president of the Client Computing Group at Intel Corporation, describes the transition.

"The shift is very big. Intel India is now a fully vertically focused semiconductor engineering centre," he said, illustrating a mandate that goes much further than just research and development.

Subramaniam explains that Intel has teams in India working on everything from instruction set architectures and processor design to CPUs and GPU graphics processors, ecosystem IPs, and firmware and software. For Intel, this shi...