Here are a couple excerpts from the article:
For Intel, which has a similar-sized R&D operation in Israel, and smaller facilities in Russia and China, the attractions of Bangalore are simple: the best climate in India and “very smart people”, who are technically well-educated and speak good English. D.B. Inamdar, the senior civil servant in the provincial government's IT department, says that some 140,000 IT professionals now work in Bangalore—about 20,000 more than in Silicon Valley. Some 50 colleges produce 40,000 more each year. Intel's approach is to hire and train college graduates, supplementing them with about 100 senior engineers, mostly (like Mr Sampat) returning expatriates.
Many firms still see untapped potential in using the wealth of Indian talent for R&D—not just in IT-related areas but in other industries such as drugs and biotech. The long-term worry this raises for America is what Mr Paul calls “the disruption of the apprenticeship path”. Even if much of the work being done in India is not at the most advanced and sophisticated technical level, it is filling what used to be part of the professional experience that has helped to create America's legions of great innovators. Just as once unassailable American corporate R&D departments have seen their sway weakened, will it be long before America itself loses its near-monopoly of global innovation?
Bottom line - we're eating the seed corn of American innovation. What happens when the center of new ideas and new technology is elsewhere? They supplant us - and not just economically. We become an ex-superpower.
And if reducing America to a has-been isn't treason, I wonder what is!