Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman, NIIT, said the company would partner with Intel to launch the latter’s multi-core training curriculum.

Pawar said this partnership is a good example of the coming together of two players, who have a global play. They will be launching this programme in 10 countries simultaneously, he added.

Excerpts from CNBC-TV18's exclusive interview with Rajendra S Pawar:

Q: Give us more details about this new alliance that you forged with Intel?

A: In the last few years, we have moved out of IT training in developing countries to global talent development. Today's launch is a good example of how you will see us through our product and course announcements.

Intel has launched its multi-core technology and it went from single processor to dual, to four, to multi-core. The challenge is, how to train and retain the global community of developers, and to leverage this new technology, which gives a lot of advantages compared to single-core technology.

At present, Intel is doing a global launch of their multi-core and NIIT is getting into global talent development. It is a good example of the coming together of two important players, who have a global play. We are launching this programme simultaneously in 10 countries, where our curriculum on multi-core will be available to learners across the world.

Q: What is the size of the market that you will be looking at and how does the partnership with Intel help you garner as many clients as possible?

A: The client share includes NIIT or GNIT students in India, to architects of large user companies, who are redesigning their hardware architecture and reworking their whole application software. The clientele here is the whole range of entry-level programmers to the IT department of large companies.

The market share is a bit difficult to define. There is an interesting statistic which says that there are about 12 billion developers in the world, of which 1.2 or 1.3 billion are in India. To varying degrees, these developers have to understand what multi-core is, at one end. At the other end, they have to acquire new skills, so that when they write programmes they can do it using the capability of multi-core suites. It is difficult to put a number but the opportunity is quite large.