World's biggest microprocessor manufacturer, whose businessstands at 35 billion dollars, has chosen Romania for a softwarecentre.
US-based Intel, a giant with 35 billion dollars in revenues willopen a software development centre in Bucharest next week, thefirst in Europe to be developed from the ground up. Recruitment adspublished on Intel's website reveal that the US company will hireseveral dozen people at first, mainly programmers. Developmentscenarios applied by Intel so far show that such centres quicklyexpand to several hundred employees, which will most likely happenin Romania, too.
Intel officials would not provide any comment on the opening of thesoftware centre before its official inauguration next week.
The decision of Intel, one of the biggest 70 US companies revealsRomania remains a top destination in terms of services or softwaredevelopment centres, ten years after the first wave of IT companiesstarted recruiting on this market.
"The trigger of the massive IT investments in Romania was thedecision to drop the tax on programmers' incomes, and the formerIntel chairman of the board Craig Barrett played a key part inthis, with his statements and his lobbying," says VarujanPambuccian, member of the IT&C Committee of the Chamber ofDeputies.
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