Quest Global announced the acquisition of BITSILICA, an India-based semiconductor design services company. The acquisition covers Quest Global’s semiconductor offerings and its footprint in supporting global semiconductor customers. It also covers the company’s strategy to build full-stack capabilities from concept-to-silicon-to-software.
With this acquisition, BITSILICA will have access to Quest Global’s 25+ years of domain expertise where they serve as a partner to help solve engineering problems for their customers. BITSILICA’s service portfolio will complement Quest Global’s existing capabilities as an engineering solutions provider by adding its capabilities in semiconductors and embedded systems for IP/Subsystem/SoC Design, Design Verification, and Physical Design for applications in the semiconductor space. The companies will scale operations and advance their combined capabilities to provide solutions.
Founded in 2019, BITSILICA has expertise across ASIC Design, Design Verification, physical design, DFT, and embedded software. With over 500 engineers across India (Bangalore & Hyderabad), Singapore and Malaysia, BITSILICA serves semiconductor and hi-tech companies including those in mobile, compute, FPGA, wireless, memory, AI, and IoT. A portion of its workforce is dedicated to design verification (DV) capacity. This will add to Quest Global’s capabilities across functional and formal verification, gate-level simulations, power-aware verification, validation, and emulation. This will support Quest Global to address engineering challenges for its automotive semiconductor clients.
Ajit Prabhu, Co-founder and CEO, Quest Global, commented, “We are excited to welcome BITSILICA to the Quest Global family. We share a common passion to serve our clients as trusted thinking partners. Together, we are uniquely positioned to deliver on the specific challenges and requirements our clients face in the Semiconductor industry.”
Commenting on the acquisition, Bhaskar Kakani, Co-founder and CEO, BITSILICA, said, “We couldn’t be more excited about this new phase in our company’s growth. Quest Global’s relentless pursuit to innovate and help clients solve their hardest engineering problems is a strategic fit with BITSILICA’s clients and purpose. This partnership marks an important milestone for us, and I am thrilled what our combined teams will accomplish together.”
