The Nujira Centre has benefited from £175,000 funding from Scottish Development International. Nujira’s IC design centre houses a multidisciplinary semiconductor development team focused on  mobile phone handset solutions.  

Designers will specialise in high performance switched mode power supply controller and amplifier design. Nujira plans to more than double the headcount to 60 by the end of 2012. 

Fergus Ewing was "delighted to open this new R&D centre in Edinburgh," saying " not only will it create jobsbut it also reinforces the city's reputation as a great place to do business and is testament to the talent and skills of the local workforce. Nujira is an exciting company with ambitious plans for growth and this is exactly the type of investment we need more of in Scotland to ensure we maintain our global competitiveness."

Gordon Neish, Nujira VP Engineering said, “The Edinburgh area boasts an outstanding pool of IC design expertise and was a significant contributory factor for deciding to locate herE.

"The new Edinburgh design centre allows us to harness this expertise as well as the new engineering talent coming out of the universities to deliver our vision of installing our energy saving technology in hundreds of millions of mobile phone handsets around the world.”