Craig Barrett, chief executive officer of the world's largest chip manufacturing company Intel, will visit India on November 18.

He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia during his visit. Barrett will also call on Union IT and Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran, official sources said.

He will visit Bangalore where Intel has its chip design centre.

Though Barrett's agenda has not been disclosed, it is believed he will announce Intel's next round of expansion.

India has been projected by Intel as a centre of its core chips development work, as against China where only localisation and software development take place. The development centre in Bangalore is working on the next generation mobile chipset.

India missed the electronics manufacturing bus the first time, but it is preparing for the next opportunity. Recently, Maran had met chiefs of many global hardware companies during his visit to the US and expressed government's support to them for any future manufacturing facility in India.

India's strengths are in system and chip design along with chip layout and validation. It is not a big chip market, so the government needs to give strong support and subsidise research and manufacturing, analysts say.