Semiconductor company AMD looking to ramp up engineering team in India

Semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices is looking to strengthen its India team, with focus on building teams to work on artificial intelligence and wireless technology, says Ruth Cotter, senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, human resources and investor relations at the Santa Clara, California-headquartered company. In an interview with ET, Cotter says the company is also looking to increase the number of women engineers in an effort to strengthen its diversity numbers.
We are a product-led company, and to build great products we have to have great engineering capability and capacity. We are 1,600+ employees in India, of which about 1,500+ are engineers and they are pretty much evenly split between Bengaluru and Hyderabad. We have been doing a lot of hiring to strengthen this team as they take on more responsibilities and ownership of our product roadmap. We grew by about 25% in 2018 and that momentum will continue in 2019.

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Comfort Systems USA Announces Acquisition

Business Wire | February 01, 2024

Comfort Systems USA, Inc. today announced that it has closed its previously announced transaction to acquire Summit Industrial Construction, LLC (“Summit”) headquartered in Houston, Texas. As previously disclosed, Summit is a specialty industrial mechanical contractor offering engineering, design-assist and turnkey, direct hire construction services of modular systems serving the advanced technology, power, and industrial sectors. Summit’s capabilities encompass a wide range of modular and site-based construction, including process piping, equipment setting, large pipe rack trestles, and related steel erection and specialty concrete work. Summit is a trusted supplier to some of the world’s largest advanced technology, power and industrial companies and is currently deployed on several major chip fabrication projects. Initially, Summit is expected to contribute annualized revenues of approximately $375 million to $400 million, and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization of $35 million to $40 million. In light of the amortization expense, Summit is expected to make a neutral to slightly accretive contribution to earnings per share in 2024 and 2025. Brian Lane, Comfort Systems USA’s Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We are delighted to announce the closing of our agreement to acquire Summit, an extremely capable provider of modular and other complex mechanical services. Summit brings a stellar reputation as a modular technology leader in growing end markets, including multiple ongoing and large semiconductor projects. We are happy to welcome Summit’s wonderful leadership team and excellent production and craft workers across many states, and we are confident Summit will continue to innovate and grow as a part of our network of world-class contracting companies. We are grateful that Summit has chosen to become part of Comfort Systems USA.”

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