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San Francisco, Oct 7: Karnataka’s Large and Medium Industries Minister had a productive discussion around skilling, Center of Excellence, and stimulating of start-up ecosystem with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for Karnataka.

The minister along with State’s IT/BT and Rural Development Minister Priyank Kharge and senior government officials is on a 12-day tour of the United States of America.

He held discussions were held with officials of the Santa Clara-headquartered company.

Jay Hiremath, Senior Vice President, AMD,SoniJiandani, Co-founder of Pensando Systems (AMD Networking Technology and Solutions Group) held discussions with Karnataka’s delegation arund various partnership opportunities.

Dr S Selvakumar, Principal Secretary, Department of Commerce and Industries, DrEkroopCaur, Secretary, Department of Electronics Information Technology Biotechnology and Science & Technology, and Gunjan Krishna, Commissioner for Industrial Development, and Director, Industries, and Commerce were present during the occasion.

The Karnataka Government delegation led by M B Patil visited AMD’s Innovation Center.

AMD is a $150-billion company, manufactures microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors, graphics processors, and FPGAs for servers, workstations, personal computers, and embedded systems applications. AMD has been present in India since 2001.

Currently, the company has over 6500 employees in the country with offices spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.