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Shiv Nadar is the founder of HCL. He founded HCL in 1976 in a Delhi "barsaati". In 1978, HCL developed the first indigenous micro-computer at the same time as Apple and 3 years before IBM's PC. In 1980, HCL introduced bit sliced, 16-bit processor based micro-computer. In 1983, HCL Indigenously developed an RDBMS, a Networking OS and a Client Server architecture, at the same time as global IT peers. In 1986, HCL became the largest IT company in India. In 1988, HCL introduced fine grained multi-processor Unix-3 years ahead of "Sun" and "HP". In 1991, HCL entered into a joint venture Hewlett Packard and HCL-Hewlett Packard Ltd. was formed. The joint developed multi-processor Unix for HP and heralded HCL's entry into contract R&D. In 1997, HCL Infosystems was formed. In the same year HCL ventured into software services. In 1999, HCL Technologies Ltd issued an IPO and became a public listed company. In 2001, HCL BPO was incorporated and HCL Infosystems became the largest hardware company. In 2002, software businesses of HCL Infosystems and HCL Technologies were merged. In 2005, HCL set up first Power PC architecture design centre outside of IBM. In the same year HCL Infosystems launched sub Rs.10,000 PC. In 2006, HCL Infosystems became the first company in India to launch the New Generation of High Performance Server Platforms Powered by Intel Dual - Core Xeon 5000 Processor. Today, HCL has a turnover of over US$4billion.
Major Achievements of HCL