Whats Flextronics strategy with design?
We’re developing a capability to design and make products cheaper than anyone on the planet. What we’re doing is similar to the Taiwanese ODMs. But we can do the whole product, from soup to nuts. Many people don’t understand that the Taiwanese ODMs are not very good manufacturers. They often outsource to us. Also, datacom and telecom equipment is very software-intensive. Software is a major weakness of Taiwanese and Chinese companies, who basically are hardware guys. Therefore, many of our acquisitions have been in software. Q: You’ve made a lot of design acquisitions, including Frog Design. How do the pieces fit together? A: We’ve made five acquisitions in India and now have more than 4,000 design people there. We will do more. The five companies are doing hardware or software for the data communication or telecom industries. In Ukraine, we have a design group that will work with India in network services and product design. We probably have 1,500 people there now. We have a major pri
