200 Romanians develop software in Bucharest for chips used in BMW and Renault cars

US Freescale company, one of the world’s biggest chip producers, in ten years has expanded its software engineer team of Romania from five to around 200 people, and it is likely to boost it further in the coming years, Raja Tabet, vice-president with the software and system unit of the firm, told ZF in an interview.
“The Romanian centre has around 200 engineers developing software, it is probably our only research and development centre exclusively dedicated to software,” said Raja Tabet. The company also has such centres in countries such as Israel, China and the US.
The Romanian team does not directly interact with the company’s clients, with the sales and marketing departments being located in another European country, but the activity of Romanian software developers maintains all Freescale’s departments, says Raja Tabet.
For instance, the “Microcontroller Solutions Group Auto” team in Romania writes and tests software for the chips using Freescale technology that go to clients in this industry like BMW, PSA, Renault Nissan and Chevrolet.