MediaTek to accelerate “Make-in-India” initiative

MediaTek Inc. has announced its “Smartphone Design Training Program” created to accelerate the “Make-in-India” initiative has concluded successfully. MediaTek has developed this training program to foster and educate talent for India’s fast-growing handset industry, by sharing its smartphone expertise and knowledge with a group of handpicked senior managers and engineers from the smartphone industry in India.  

This industry's first training program has been designed to help the Indian Government address the strong demand for smartphone design talent and supply the necessary skills. It also creates a platform for MediaTek and its global ecosystem partners to collaborate with Indian companies and build closer partnerships to create new, Indian designed products for its home market.

The training program’s closing ceremony was held at the MediaTek headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan on 13th January. Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary of MeitY, joined the ceremony via video conference and recognized historical value of the training program to foster talent for India. MediaTek Chairman & CEO, Ming-Kai Tsai, congratulated all the participants who completed the training in person, along with Ming-Ji Wu, Director General of Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA.

Sridharan Madhusudhanan, Director General, India Taipei Association, and Gince Kuruvilla Mattam, Deputy Director General, India Taipei Association, also attended the function and interacted with the participating Taiwanese companies and Indian engineers.

Forty-two Indian engineers joined the program in Taiwan for the training, who are now industry-ready to work on live handset design projects. The participants represent twenty-two leading Indian companies including well-known smartphone brands Micromax, Videocon, Lava and Intex.

MediaTek collaborates with the smartphone global ecosystem to provide an unprecedented opportunity, where key component companies came together to share knowledge of their specialized domains. These partners included Airoha, Anritsu, Ilitek, Keysight, Liteon, Litepoint, RichTek, Rohde & Schwarz, Sporton, TXC Corporation, Unimicron and Winbond.

“The pilot phase of our smartphone training program has successfully completed, however, this is not the end, but rather a new beginning of the journey. MediaTek and its partners in the smartphone supply chain will continue to collaborate with India, and support its industry to build a complete mobile ecosystem. I hope to see all the participants fully utilize what they have learnt in Taiwan to bring new handsets to the Indian market in the near future,” said, MediaTek Chairman & CEO, Ming-Kai Tsai.

“With the government’s leadership, Taiwanese companies have invested over US$6 billion to support the ‘Make-in-India’ initiative in the past years and have become a trustworthy partner for India. The MediaTek’s smartphone training program further helped bring Taiwanese expertise in design and manufacturing of electronics products to India, creating a win-win situation leveraging the strengths of both countries. Taiwan’s active promotion of the New Southbound Policy encourages collaboration between Taiwanese and Indian industries. We hope to see this program continue in the future,” said Ming-Ji Wu, Director General of Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA.