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Tech giant Qualcomm is significantly ramping up its focus on India’s burgeoning automotive sector, even exploring partnerships with local companies like Tata Electronics for future chip procurement as India develops its semiconductor fabrication units.
Qualcomm currently supplies chips to a wide array of automotive manufacturers in India, including Maruti Suzuki India, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hero MotoCorp, and even luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz, according to Nakul Duggal, Group General Manager for Automotive and Industrial, and Embedded IoT at Qualcomm Technologies. He highlighted that Qualcomm’s automotive platforms now power over 350 million vehicles worldwide, making the company a trusted innovation partner for nearly all of India’s leading automakers and ecosystem players.
“India is obviously a fast-growing market for us,” Duggal stated, noting that the automotive segment accounts for about 10% of Qualcomm’s global revenue, which grew by $950 million from automotive last year. He anticipates automotive revenues to grow to $8 billion by 2029.
Local Partnerships and Engineering Hub
Regarding collaborations with chip manufacturers in India, Duggal explained, “We partner with a variety of partners. Our global customers who have started to do some local manufacturing, we have partnered with them for those components. We have also partnered, for example, for our modules, which are typically today built in Taiwan or China or Korea, but we are now actively working with local players in India.”
Qualcomm’s strong presence in India is built on a decade-long foundation of automotive engineering. India serves as a global engineering hub for the company, with operations across four locations: Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Gurugram. This extensive presence supports Qualcomm’s entire chipset and software roadmap for telematics, cockpit systems, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), two-wheelers, and connected services.
Duggal emphasized the critical role of the Indian workforce, stating, “Qualcomm has 22,000 engineers in India… 60 plus percent of our global engineering workforce is in India. So pretty much any technology that we build, any car that we build, there is a footprint in it.” He added that the automotive team in India comprises about 1,000 people.
Published on July 30, 2025
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