Texas Instruments Inc on Friday inaugurated its new campus in Bangalore. The new facility, which houses more than 1,000 employees, covers an area of seven acres. The company is soon likely to hire more at its new centre.

The centre includes facilities for chip design, testing, and validation with state-of-the-art equipment for verification of both logical and physical IC manufacturing process.

TI is the world's No. 3 chipmaker, behind Intel and Samsung.

A leading provider of innovative analog technologies to meet customers' real world signal processing requirements, the company extends its almost 20-year commitment to India by broadening its circuit design and software development capabilities at the new facility.

"This is an important milestone for Texas Instruments in India. We were the first multinational company to establish a circuit design and development center in India in 1985. The new campus is a symbol of TI's long-term commitment to India," Rich Templeton, President and Chief Executive Officer of TI, said in a media release.

"TI India is an integral part of our worldwide development strategy in bringing about, state-of-the-art products and technologies for our customers globally. Over the years, India has come to play an increasingly important role in the long-term success of TI," he added.

"By combining our two separate facilities into one location in Bangalore, we can be more efficient and effective in bringing new designs to market faster. I am proud to have been a part of the remarkable progress TI has made in India since 1985. We started off as a small group and have now grown into a multi-discipline development organisation, with major emphasis on VLSI design and embedded software," said Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, Managing Director, Texas Instruments India.

"TI has also helped to create an ecosystem in the country where a number of companies have the opportunity to work on VLSI design. We are not only working on cutting edge programs in India, but also partnering with leading universities to bring in industry knowledge to students. TI India is also working with a number of third parties and developers who in turn will benefit from TI technologies," Mitra added.

The campus also houses TI's Texins facility which offers a variety of sport leagues, training, and numerous fitness, entertainment and recreation programs aimed at employee well being. The facility is also available to the families of TI India employees.

Rich Templeton, President and Chief Executive Officer of US company Texas Instruments Inc, at the inauguration of the TI's new facility in Bangalore on Friday. Photo: Indranil Mukherjee / AFP / Getty Images