Kandou AI has opened its India semiconductor design centre and national headquarters in Hyderabad, giving a fresh boost to the city’s ambitions in global chip design and AI infrastructure. The move strengthens company’s plans to scale next generation, high speed and energy efficient AI silicon for deployments worldwide.
Hyderabad emerges as Kandou AI’s India base
Headquartered in Switzerland and co founded by Telangana native Srujan Linga, Kandou AI has selected Hyderabad’s Kondapur area as the location for its India Chip Design Headquarters.
The new facility at Krishe Emerald will house core functions including advanced semiconductor design, high speed connectivity solutions, firmware and software development, systems engineering and customer facing technical teams.
According to various newsbytes, the company leaders say the Hyderabad hub is geared to speed up development cycles, enhance collaboration between global engineering teams and support customers building large scale AI infrastructure.
The centre is known to already accumulate more than 150 engineers working on advanced chip design and related technologies, with hiring expected to pick up further in the coming years.
Building next generation AI infrastructure
Kandou AI focuses on high speed, low power connectivity and memory solutions designed to ease bandwidth bottlenecks in large AI clusters.
Its portfolio includes copper based interconnect technologies and chip level architectures that aim to deliver lower cost, lower power consumption and higher scalability than conventional AI data centre approaches.
The Hyderabad design centre is set to play a central role in engineering these platforms, spanning silicon architecture and verification, validation, firmware integration and systems level optimisation for AI workloads.
According to coverage from NewsBytes, the India team will work in close coordination with counterparts in Europe and other regions to build products tuned for hyperscale, cloud and enterprise AI deployments.
Boost for Hyderabad’s semiconductor ambitions
Kandou AI’s decision gives further momentum to Hyderabad’s push to cement its position as a global hub for semiconductor design and deep tech innovation.
Telangana’s leadership has consistently positioned the city as a strong destination for fabless chip companies, AI startups and electronics system design firms.
At the inauguration, former Telangana IT and electronics minister KT Rama Rao called the opening a strong vote of confidence in the state’s engineering ecosystem and a signal to other global semiconductor and AI players evaluating India locations.
Long term commitment to talent and partnerships
Kandou AI has also signalled a strong focus on local talent development. The company plans to work closely with universities, industry bodies and government agencies to build a steady pipeline of semiconductor design professionals from Hyderabad and across India, including through curriculum inputs, internships and joint research in areas such as high speed interconnects, AI accelerators and systems engineering.
CEO Srujan Linga has underlined that the new headquarters is a long term commitment to building world class semiconductor and AI infrastructure technologies out of India, rather than a peripheral satellite for global operations.
Funding tailwinds and expansion roadmap
Earlier this year, Kandou AI raised around 225 million dollars from global investors to scale its technology and accelerate go to market plans for AI infrastructure platforms.
