Opportunities in the Semiconductor Design Sector

1. Opportunities in the Semiconductor Design Sector VTU May 16, 2009 • Ramkumar Subramanian • Sales and Marketing Vice President • AMD India

2. Today’s Agenda Introduction and About AMD Semiconductor Industry Market overview The Indian semiconductor design industry Educational Opportunities Career Opportunities What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer? Q & A

3. Today’s Agenda Semiconductor Industry Market overview Introduction and About AMD The Indian semiconductor design industry Educational Opportunities Career Opportunities What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer? Q & A

4. Founded 1969 Headquarters Sunnyvale, CA Employees Approx.11,000 worldwide The Customer-CentricInnovation Company Sales Mix 78% international $5.6 billion1 2006 Revenue AMD At-a-Glance A leader in microprocessors, graphics and chipsets 2007 Revenue $6.0 billion1 1As a result of Spansion Inc.’s initial public offering (IPO) in December 2005, financial results for periods in 2006 and 2007 compared to periods in 2005 do not correlate directly. In this document, all references to and comparisons with periods in 2005 exclude the results of the company’s former Memory Products segment.

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6. AMD in India New Delhi Sales & Marketing Kolkata Sales & Marketing Hyderabad R&D Centers: 2 Sales & Marketing Mumbai Sales & Marketing Bangalore R&D Centers: 2 Sales & Marketing Chennai Sales & Marketing

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9. Team Composition by Experience

10. Team Overview • Delivering on CEG Roadmap • Focused on design of x86 products for Server/Client families • Established Credibility • Successful ramp and execution has attracted other design teams and all Microprocessor projects are building presence in India • Demonstrated Capability • Architecture to GDS. • Technical Recognition • Patents – 15+ • Papers/Tutorials – 17 • Conference Chairs/Panelists/Invited talks – 24+ First x86 MPU design team in AMD outside US Four x86 tape-outs in 4 years and still counting!!

11. Tremendous growth in capabilities Nov 2004 Now Arch Arch Verif COE AMS COE L2CoE DFT COE Verif RTL Verif RTL DFT Ckt DFT Ckt Impl Impl Layout CAD Layout CAD SOC SOC Demonstrated Capability Ramping Silicon Debug Silicon Debug

12. Today’s Agenda Introduction and About AMD Semiconductor Industry Market overview The Indian semiconductor design industry Educational Opportunities Career Opportunities What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer? Q & A

13. Semiconductor Market in the World Economy $326B Semiconductors $213B $1,340B Electronics $1,000B GDP $43 Trillion $37 Trillion 2004 Worldwide 2008E Worldwide Source: IC Insights; Not to scale

14. Semiconductor Revenue by Industry Vertical Y2001: $139B Y2006: $261B Source: iSuppli

15. Plenty of Growth Ahead 265 255 US Semi / Person = ~$250 … … 245 11 65 10 55 9 45 Semi $ / Person 8 35 World Population (Billion) 7 25 China & India Semi / Person = ~$20 15 6 5 5 4 -5 ‘80 ‘05 ‘85 ‘90 ‘95 ‘00 ‘10 World Population Worldwide average semiconductor $ per person Source: US Census Bureau; IC-Insights; TSMC estimates

16. Semiconductor Revenue Breakdown by Product Segment 2010E Source: Gartner Research

17. Semiconductor Industry Value Chain Systems Design Products Design IP/library Manufacturing EDA Design implementation Wafer Manufacturing Wafer testing Backend Assembly Packaging

18. Today’s Agenda Introduction and About AMD The Indian semiconductor design industry Semiconductor Industry Market overview Educational Opportunities Career Opportunities What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer? Q & A

19. India is Fertile Ground for IC Design Innovation India Semiconductor Consumption ($Billions) Strong IC Design Revenue Growth IC Design revenues ($bn) Global Market share (%) 30.9%CAGR 29.1% CAGR Key IC Companies 19

20. Today’s Agenda Introduction and About AMD Semiconductor Industry Market overview The Indian semiconductor design industry Educational Opportunities Career Opportunities What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer? Q & A

21. What it does to make a good semiconductor engineer • Education: • Bachelors/Master/Doctorate in Electrical or Electronics or Comp Sc. • Skills: • Front-end: Strong basics in Comp Architecture, Logic design, Programming(C/C++),  Perl scripting, knowledge of hardware description language(Verilog/VHDL) demonstrated through projects, any knowledge of DFT/ATPG desirable, knowledge of Unix OS and so on. • Back-end: Strong basics in Logic design, Transistor level design, knowledge of transistor level simulators (Hspice, etc), Logic/Circuit timing analysis

22. What it does take….. • Qualifications: • Worked on microprocessor/DSP type of projects • Minimum requirements: • Bachelors/Masters/Doctorate degree from a reputed institution with good academic record in Electrical or Electronics or Comp Sc disciplines. • Good knowledge of microprocessor/microcontroller/DSP with some of the skill set mentioned above.

23. What it does take… • Soft Skills: • Communication: Fluent in English and clear in communication • Project management skills: Ability to manage and motivate teams to accomplish goals. Provide a career development path to team members. • Cross-cultural communication: Good ability to communicate across sites and cultures. • People management: Resolving day to day people issues, morale issues, dealing with under performers, etc.

24. Today’s Agenda Introduction and About AMD Semiconductor Industry Market overview The Indian semiconductor design industry Educational Opportunities Career Opportunities What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer? Q & A

25. Educational Opportunities • Graduate / master’s degree from one of the engg. Colleges • VLSI design courses from: • CDAC, Hyderabad: Certificate course in Digital and Analog design (CDAD) • Sandeepani School of VLSI Design, Bangalore and Hyderabad: Post-Graduate Diploma in VLSI Design • Veda IIT: MS and Diploma in VLSI and Embedded Systems • Cranes Software, Bangalore: Embedded System Certification • Vedant , Chandigarh, Lucknow: Course in front-end and back-end design including Analogue & Mixed signal design

26. Today’s Agenda Introduction and About AMD Semiconductor Industry Market overview The Indian semiconductor design industry Educational Opportunities Career Opportunities What does it take to be a good semiconductor design engineer? Q & A

27. Career Opportunities • AMD India has a well defined career path for employees in • Technical • Management functions. • Typically, an engineer takes about 5-6 years to reach the position of a Senior Design Engineer. • Post this he can decide either to continue in the technical function or move to a management function, • What counts most is the innovation that an engineer can bring to AMD’s leading products & technologies. • AMD provides the opportunity to innovate and bring in market leading technologies is tremendous. •  In addition, employees have the option of moving laterally and also across sites within India and even to other AMD sites worldwide. This is subject to need, suitability of requirement and appropriate fit for the position.

28. Q&A and More information • For further information: • Ravikanth Penugonda, Verification Team, • ravikanth.penugonda@amd.com • Shodhna Shetty, HR, • shodhna.shetty@amd.com

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30. Some Top VLSI Graduate ProgramsDisclaimer: This is for information purposes only and is not to meant to be a comprehensive list or serve as rankings of any kind • Stanford University • University of California at Berkeley • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • University of Texas at Austin • University of Southern California, Los Angeles - • University of illinois, Urbana Champaign • University of Wisconsin, Madison • California Institute of Technology (CalTech) • Duke University • Northwestern University • University of California, Los Angeles • Iowa State University • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY • Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Arizona State University • Pennsylvania State University • Purdue University • Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)

31. Some Design Services Companies in IndiaDisclaimer: This is for information purposes only and is not to meant to be a comprehensive list

32. A Sample List of Global Semiconductor Companies

33. Manufacturing Plans of Companies in India