The Rising Tide, Pakistan's $5 Billion Software Industry

[Thəorətic Muslim]

First you should learn to spell right..its Pentium..

Secondly, no Indian single handedly invented any of the above as chest-thumping Indians like to portray. They were just part of a much larger team filled with multinationals and even multi-geographic. Ajay Bhatt was the co-inventor of USB, together with a team, just like he also made his contributions to other peripherals like; PCI, AGP, and etc. This is to not to downplay his credentials as a highly valued inventor, but to set the chest thumping record straight.

How rude of me to make a spelling mistake, let me turn your kindness by correcting your grammar.

Now that we're done with sarcasm. Perhaps you'll point me to some Pakistanis who are the heads of departments, in the Silicon Valley, doing R&D into the future of IT.

 

[Bouncer]

Way to shit all over what could have been a very informative thread. Nice.

And people comparing Pakistan's IT industry with India should get banned from this thread at least. India is an established name in this industry. Pakistan is frankly not even in the same league. Period.

On topic, good news. Can anybody share some breakdown of this 5B USD figure? It would be very interesting to see which specific fields are we talking about here. If you were to count the Pakistan based companies HQ'ed in places like Dubai, SF or London etc this figure would be a higher.

 

[CriticalThinker02]

As a developer myself I am proud of what we have achieved so far and can't wait to make Pakistan the software giant of the world.

Look at all the future developers in the video below.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153113041412623

 

[somebozo]

How rude of me to make a spelling mistake, let me turn your kindness by correcting your grammar.

Now that we're done with sarcasm. Perhaps you'll point me to some Pakistanis who are the heads of departments, in the Silicon Valley, doing R&D into the future of IT.

If you have been actually reading the thread rather than trolling...

The Rising Tide, Pakistan's $5 Billion Software Industry


still funny for someone with double american flag to not know the pentium vs platinum??

Atiq Raza
Chairman & CEO, CALIENT Technologies Inc.
Atiq Raza is currently Chairman & CEO of CALIENT Technologies, a leading 3D MEMS Optical Circuit Switch Manufacturer. He also serves as Chairman of the Board at Validity, a biometric solutions company and Chairman of eASIC, a structured ASIC company. Atiq is also on the board of Seeo, a next generation Li-ion battery company and serves on the Stanford University School of Engineering Advisory Board.

Mr. Raza is an industry veteran and has been working in engineering leadership and senior management positions for the past thirty-two years. He was Chairman and CEO of NexGen, the first company to challenge Intel in microprocessors. NexGen became a public company and subsequently was acquired by AMD for approximately $850 million in AMD stock. Atiq became the President and COO of AMD and served on its Board of Directors. At AMD, he laid the foundation of its processor business and brought the AMD-K6 and Athlon products to market and established the Opteron 64-bit instruction set architecture. Prior to NexGen, Atiq held various management positions at VLSI technology Incorporated, most notably the president of Technology Centers.

Post AMD, Atiq founded Raza Microelectronics Incorporated (RMI). RMI was acquired by NetLogic in October 2009. RMI as part of NetLogic is sampling the XLP Multi-issue Multi-threaded Processor, and is recognized by the Microprocessor Report as one of the most outstanding Processors in the industry today.

Atiq also serves as Chief Technology Advisor to NetLogic and has been on the boards of several successful start-ups including Mellanox (now a public company), SiByte (acquired by Broadcom for $2.2 billion), Siara (acquired by Redback for $4 billion), VxTel (acquired by Intel for $500 million) and Magma (now a public company).

He has several degrees, including his Bachelor’s degree with honors in Physics from Punjab University, with a double bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from the University of London, and his Master’s degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

 

[ziaulislam]

5 Billion Dollars !!!!! Something is seriously wrong with this figure.

well, you have to counter services, local and exports everything...it definitively is 5 billion, if not more..
but for 20 core population this is peanuts

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

If you have been actually reading the thread rather than trolling...

Flags should be Pak-US...

You're missing the point. Of my posts, just the vast percentage of Indians in the IT/Software/Hardware/ etc etc field outpaces Pakistanis. While you're busy stating 1 Pakistani IT is worth 10 Indian ITs, India has companies with revenues the size of Pakistan's entire IT industry.

And you're calling me the troll?

You're blatant disregard of anything Indian is disappointing and highlights the idiot Hina's comment that the Pakistani identity is linked with hatred of others.

You highlight a Pakistani? Good. It's nice to see. Now I dont have time to point out the hundreds of Indians since you're in the IT field and obviously you got time on your hands feel free to post the bios of them.

Saiyed Atiq Raza had founded NexGen, which was acquired by AMD in 1996. Raza was AMD's President and Chief Operating Officer in the late 1990s after the NexGen acquisition. He left AMD in 1999 and founded Raza Microelectronics, Inc. in 2002.[1] In 2003, SandCraft Inc folded, and Raza acquired the rights to its intellectual property. Behrooz Abdi became president and CEO in November 2007, and Raza Microelectronics changed its name to RMI Corporation in December 2007.[2] In January 2008 Raza settled with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over an allegation of insider trading during 2006.[1][3] RMI was not affiliated with Foundries Holdings, LLC, formerly known as Raza Foundries, Inc. In 2008, RMI merged with NetLogic Microsystems, which was acquired by Broadcom in 2012.

And your Atiq Raza hero lives in the US rather than investing in Pakistan.... or spreading his insight to what is necessary for the future to Pakistan's IT future.

 

[somebozo]

And your Atiq Raza hero lives in the US rather than investing in Pakistan.... or spreading his insight to what is necessary for the future to Pakistan's IT future.

Atiq has not future in Pakistan..he will most likely be kidnapped and killed by some terrorist goons..that the cold bitter fact..

By your definition even Americans and Europeans now outnumber Indians in their native IT industry so it must be that American are Dumb and Indians are smarter..its quality over quantity always..

 

[Kraitcorp]

Why were all my informative post deleted?

 

[Cherokee]

TCS annual revenue : ~16-17 Billion Dollars
Cognizant Annual Revenue: ~ 13 Billion Dollars
Infosys Annual Revenue : ~ 9 to 10 billion Dollars
Wipro Annual Revenue : ~7 to 8 billion dollars
HCL annual revenue : :~6 billion dollars
Tech Mahindra: ~4 Billion dollars
L&T Infotech: ~ 1 billion dollars

Then there are dozens of companies worth a few hundred million dollars like Syntel, MphasiS, Genpact India,MindTree Ltd, iGate, KPIT, Zensar, Cyient, Hexaware, NIIT, Persistent Systems, Infinite Computer Solutions (India) ,Geometric, MASTEK etc .

When TCS annual revenue alone is more than 3 times Entire Pakistani It economy stupid comparisons from the beginning of the thread seems childish littered with personal anecdotes which are generally refugee of statements which cannot be backed up by facts.

Pakistani IT industry is Still in nascent phase and will grow with time without a doubt . Best of luck .

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

By your definition even Americans and Europeans now outnumber Indians in their native IT industry so it must be that American are Dumb and Indians are smarter..its quality over quantity always..

My point is to stop disregarding something of lesser quality just because it's Indian origin when compared to a Pakistani product...

Back in the 80s and 90s Indians flooded the American market and earned a place for themselves in Silicon Valley. Most jobs people have is through connections, i'm willing to wager that many Indians in Silicon Valley or up and down the Western Coast are there thanks to the previous generation. It's from the early pioneers that you got their contributions to technology you see now.

These Indians are now either returning to India bringing the culture of ingenuity and entrepreneurship to India or are the beachheads for further inclusions.

This is what Pakistan will need. For all the riches of China, they still rely on western architects to make 5 star hotels, and are behind due to the lack of innovation.

 

[kṣamā]

TCS annual revenue : ~16-17 Billion Dollars
Cognizant Annual Revenue: ~ 13 Billion Dollars
Infosys Annual Revenue : ~ 9 to 10 billion Dollars
Wipro Annual Revenue : ~7 to 8 billion dollars
HCL annual revenue : :~6 billion dollars
Tech Mahindra: ~4 Billion dollars
L&T Infotech: ~ 1 billion dollars

Then there are dozens of companies worth a few hundred million dollars like Syntel, MphasiS, Genpact India,MindTree Ltd, iGate, KPIT, Zensar, Cyient, Hexaware, NIIT, Persistent Systems, Infinite Computer Solutions (India) ,Geometric, MASTEK etc .

When TCS annual revenue alone is more than 3 times Entire Pakistani It economy stupid comparisons from the beginning of the thread seems childish littered with personal anecdotes which are generally refugee of statements which cannot be backed up by facts.

Pakistani IT industry is Still in nascent phase and will grow with time without a doubt . Best of luck .

FYI IGATE just had a merger with Capgemini.

 

[Windjammer]

What apps for remote detonating suicide vests? make sense

Strange that you ask, Indians are known experts in this field, after all next stop metro molestation apps is patented in India.

 

[sohail.ishaque]

can we ban this software industry like BOL... plzzzz... if they r bringing foreign exchange, and in big amount, then there must b something wrong. so lets fking BAN it,... and ask for volunteers to come up with anything / proof that can be used as an evidence of their ban.... TILL then we can keep their offices closed, and their accounts freezed...

Ch Nisar sb, plz look into the matter, we have another murga that we can ban and show our presence.. TThanks...

 

[somebozo]

can we ban this software industry like BOL... plzzzz... if they r bringing foreign exchange, and in big amount, then there must b something wrong. so lets fking BAN it,... and ask for volunteers to come up with anything / proof that can be used as an evidence of their ban.... TILL then we can keep their offices closed, and their accounts freezed...

Ch Nisar sb, plz look into the matter, we have another murga that we can ban and show our presence.. TThanks...

Ranting to support a crime enterprise? Companies like Axact dont add reputation to the country..they push away legitimate business from investment due to bad reputation...

 

[pak-marine]

Thats the way too go baby .. Some real good news emerging