Qualcomm Incorporated has opened its Asia Pacific Test Center of Excellence in Singapore. The Center is Qualcomm’s first test development center outside of the United States, and it will enable Singapore to become a development hub for the region. By having test centers in two opposite time zones—San Diego and Singapore—Qualcomm will create an around-the-clock engineering support system that will significantly shorten the evaluation cycles for its new digital and radio frequency wireless technologies, thereby hastening their time to market.
Qualcomm’s Asia Pacific Test Center will carry out design verification and failure analysis for Qualcomm’s new products and technologies designed in its design centers in India, China, Taiwan, Korea and San Diego. The Center will also engage in independent development of new technologies and products, in addition to pre-production sampling of early product introductions.
Qualcomm’s regional suppliers stand to benefit from the shortened evaluation cycles and business opportunities generated by new products in the pipeline. Qualcomm’s major suppliers in the region include Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inscope Labs Pte. Ltd., SEMICAPS Pte. Ltd., StatsChipPac Ltd., Tessolve and Verigy.
Singapore was chosen as an ideal setting for the new Test Center due to its world-class infrastructure for business, strategic location as the crossroads of Asia, and excellent work force. The new Test Center will be managed by C.S. Chang, who serves as director of engineering and offshore development for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies and is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of technology industry experience.
Qualcomm Incorporated, www.qualcomm.com.
