 In recent years, Chennai has emerged as an electronic manufacturing hub in South Asia with multinational corporations like Dell, Motorola, Cisco, Samsung, Siemens, Ericsson, Emerson Electric, ABB and Flex setting up Electronics / Hardware manufacturing plants, particularly in the Sriperumbudur electronics SEZ .accounting for the sector alone has created investments worth $3.5bn in Chennai.Chennai is currently the largest electronics hardware exporter in India, accounting for 45% of the total exports in 2010–11.