Alchip Technologies has opened a new design center in October in Malaysia.
The new center came online to meet what the company says is ‘exploding’ global demand for its high-performance ASIC services.
The Malaysia design center is the latest addition to Alchip’s on-going global expansion that, last year, included the opening of a significantly upgraded North America presence.
The center is expected to house 30 engineers by the end of the year, with that number increasing to meet expected customer demand.
“This latest addition to our portfolio of high-performance ASIC design services is a direct response to global demand placed on Alchip. It is testimony to our growing role as a high-performance ASIC leader,” explained Johnny Shen, Alchip President and CEO.
The new center will be a hub for engineering functions including front-end IP subsystem integration and verification, DFT, electrical design, and all physical design tasks from netlist to GDS.
Alchip selected Malaysia in part because Southeast Asia countries offer cost effective-talent pools for expanding engineering resources.
Malaysia is fast becoming a semiconductor design and manufacturing center. The country is known for its large, existing pool of talented engineers and is home to well-known international semiconductor companies including Intel, AMD, Broadcom, Infineon and Renesas.
Taiwan continues to be Alchip’s main manufacturing location with Alchip actively expanding North American engineering resources to collaborate more closely with customers in that region.
Alchip customers include global leaders in AI, HPC/supercomputer, mobile phones, entertainment device, networking equipment and other electronic product categories.
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