Nordic Semiconductor Sets Up a Global Wi-Fi Hub in India

• The hub already has 40 employees and Nordic is looking to grow it rapidly by attracting top R&D talent from within India
• Nordic’s Hyderabad Wi-Fi R&D hub is headed by Bansi Mangalwedhekar, Country Manager, and his local management team including Gaurav Kapoor who head’s Nordic’s India sales team

Nordic Semiconductor has announced further to its acquisition of the entire Wi-Fi development team, core Wi-Fi expertise, and Wi-Fi IP tech assets from Imagination Technologies Group in November last year that it is well underway creating a global Wi-Fi R&D hub at a former Imagination location in Hyderabad, India. The hub already has 40 employees and Nordic is looking to grow it rapidly by attracting top R&D talent from within India.

Svein-Egil Nielsen, Nordic Semiconductor’s CTO and EVP for R&D and Strategy added, “This means that Nordic Semiconductor’s competence as it relates to Wi-Fi systems, solutions, and software will mainly reside in India with smaller hubs in other countries.What we are aiming to do is to build a center of global excellence in low power Wi-Fi and related wireless IoT technologies that is second-to-none. And exactly as we have previously done in fields such as cellular IoT where our main R&D hub is located in Finland.”

The Hyderabad Wi-Fi hub is said to have a well-equipped lab with RF chambers, Wi-Fi Alliance pre-certification facilities, and a separate interoperability lab to ensure seamless operation with other Wi-Fi vendors. Nordic’s Hyderabad Wi-Fi R&D hub is headed by Bansi Mangalwedhekar, Country Manager, and his local management team including Gaurav Kapoor who head’s Nordic’s India sales team.

Katarina Finneng, EVP People & Communication at Nordic added, “We seek to build, inspire, and motivate a highly skilled team of engineers developing cutting-edge Wi-Fi and beyond technologies. A team that will be an important part of Nordic’s culture of integrity, mutual respect, empathy, and employee-friendly policies. Policies that tend to result in Nordic employees choosing to stay working with the company for many years.”