Bangalore: Infineon Technologies India Pvt Ltd plans to double its headcount in its Bangalore centre to about 400 this year, a top company executive said today (Mar 16, 2004).

The Bangalore centre's core activities relate to software development for wireless technologies, protocols, signal processing, security applications, broadband modem and industrial process automation, among others.

Infineon Technologies Managing Director Thomas Simonis told reporters in Bangalore that the company was working with two or three partners in India but declined to name them.

The company was interested in long-term partnership and assessing the potential partners, he said.

Eighty per cent of the existing 200 employees were working on software development, 15 per cent on tools and five per cent on hardware, he said.

Munich headquartered Infineon Technologies AG is the world's sixth largest semiconductor manufacturer with revenues of Euro 6.15 billion during the fiscal year 2002 ending September.