The Indian design services industry will maintain an impressive growth rate of 20.2% during the 2007–2012 timeframe, and will reach US$3.4 billion by 2012. The captive centres of the IDMS in India currently work on cutting edge technologies and the latest process nodes. However, the industry is facing a lot of challenges, like increasing salaries and lack of analogue/mixed signal expertise in the country. The companies are building strengths to overcome these challenges and explore new opportunities.
This report gives a five-year forecast for design services revenue by captive centre and Indian design houses. It also provides the revenue for application areas. The report highlights the number of design starts in India and also the percentage of design work across different process nodes.
It also provides the revenue for associated embedded software and board designs. In addition, it gives the number of design engineers employed in the design services industry.
