FACTBOX: Multinational companies expand tech R&D in India

(Reuters) - Global technology companies are stepping up their research and development work in India. Here are some of the things they have been doing:

* MICROSOFT (MSFT.O)

-- Microsoft employs 1,500 people at its Indian R&D center. It started off with 20 people about a decade ago. -- Some of the work for key Microsoft projects such as its search engine Bing and the upcoming Windows 7 operating system was done in India.

* SAP (SAPG.DE)(SAP.N)

-- SAP Labs India, the company's largest R&D center outside Germany, employs 4,200 people. It does two-fifths of SAP's global enterprise resource planning development.

-- Half of the global development of SAP's customer relationship management software such as CRM 7.0 was done in India, as well as a fifth of the development of SAP Business ByDesign.

* GOOGLE (GOOG.O)

-- Bangalore was Google's first R&D center outside the United States. -- Google Map Maker, a global product conceived and developed by the Indian engineering team, allows users to add or edit features, such as roads, businesses, parks, schools, apartment buildings and localities.

-- News Archive Search helps users search historical archives for events, people or ideas and get a sense of how they have been described over time. The product was developed in India and deployed on a global scale.

* IBM (IBM.N)

-- International Business Machines has said it will invest $100 million in global mobile services research over the next five years. The majority of the research for the project would be directed from India.

* INTEL (INTC.O)

-- Intel's Digital Enterprise Group's efforts have resulted in the company's first six-core processor, the Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series, currently the highest-performing server chip that Intel offers.

-- Its Corporate Technology Group developed the world's first programmable processor delivering teraflops performance from its Bangalore center.

* HEWLETT-PACKARD (HPQ.N)

-- HP engineers in Bangalore contributed to the HP Dynamic Smart Cooling technology that cools systems in data centers on a customized basis and saves energy. The system was tested at HP's Palo Alto headquarters and deployed first in Bangalore. It is now deployed globally.

* CISCO SYSTEMS (CSCO.O)

-- Cisco has filed more than 600 patents from India.

(Reporting by S. John Tilak and Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore; Editing by Mike Miller and Himani Sarkar)