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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...

End of Work from home? Google calls employees back to office from April 4

Work from home comes to an end for most tech companies including Google. The US-based tech giant is the latest company to call employees back to the office. It is calling workers in the Bay Area and several other cities back to the office from April 4.

John Casey, Google’s vice president of global benefits sent an email to all employees calling them to return to the office from next month as COVID-19 cases drop significantly. Casey stated in the official email, “the advances in prevention and treatment, the steady decline in cases that we continue to see, and the improved safety measures we have implemented across our Bay Area site now mean we can officially begin the transition to the hybrid work week”.

A Bloomberg report highlighted that Google employees will need to be in the office at least three days a week from next month, while on other two days they will work from home. The company calls this a flexible workweek arrangement. Notably, this work strategy is currently applicable for employees in the San Francisco Bay Area and other cities in the United States.

Google also plans to restore full access to office amenities like fitness centers, cafeterias, music and game rooms, among others. The company plans to restore full shuttle service.

The tech giant previously planned January return-to-work but the surge in Omicron cases delayed the plan. However, Google allowed employees to voluntarily return to its Mountain View and San Francisco offices if they are fully vaccinated and agreed to wear a mask.

Meanwhile, other tech companies like Meta and Microsoft are also calling employees to re-join the office.

Microsoft employees returned to the office at the Redmond, Washington headquarters this week with the flexibility to work remotely when required. Meta has asked its employees to return to the office from March 28. Twitter employees, on the other hand, get the option to work remotely forever.

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