AART DE GESE: ARMENIA IS THE ONLY TRANSCAUCASIAN REPUBLIC, WHERE IT-TECHNOLOGIES ARE DEVELOPING
YEREVAN, JUNE 27. ARMINFO. General Director of world leader in
the sphere of e-design of automatized technologies – the American
company of Synopsys Aart de Gese gave certificates 64 graduates of
the training center Synopsys-Armenia on June 26, which jointly with
the Yerevan Engineering Institute founded Department on training of
chip-design specialists.
“Armenia attracts us rather the high qualification of man power
than its cheapness”, Gese told journalists. He mentioned that the
Synopsys is represented in 60 countries and it is implementing
joint educational projects with 400 universities. According to him,
Armenia is the only TransCaucasian republic, where IT technologies are
developing. “In Georgia and Azerbaijan we have not noticed presence
of high technologies”, he said.
Vahram Muradian, Director of Synopsys-Armenia, which supplies
components and chips to Taiwan, informed ARMINFO that the company
continues to increase the export volumes.
Secretary of the information technologies assistance fund of Armenian
government Armen Grigorian informed journalists, the positive dynamics
in the sphere was continued this year. So, the number of people
engaged in the sphere of IT-technologies increased by 20%. Now about
5,000 specialists work in the sphere of IT-technologies in Armenia.