Quest Global, a pure-play engineering services company, has acquired BITSILICA, an India-based semiconductor design services company. The acquisition will strengthen Quest Global’s semiconductor offerings and expand its footprint in supporting global semiconductor customers. It will also accelerate the company’s strategy to build full-stack capabilities from concept-to-silicon-to-software.
BITSILICA’s diverse service portfolio will complement Quest Global’s existing strengths as a top engineering solutions provider by expanding its capabilities in semiconductors and embedded systems with a focus on quality for IP/subsystem/SoC design, design verification, and physical design for applications in the semiconductor space. Together, they will accelerate growth by scaling operations and advancing their combined capabilities to provide innovative solutions.
Founded in 2019, BITSILICA brings expertise across ASIC Design, design verification, physical design, DFT, and embedded software. With over 500 engineers across Bangalore, Hyderabad, Singapore and Malaysia, BITSILICA serves leading global semiconductor and hi-tech companies including those in mobile, compute, FPGA, wireless, memory, AI, and IoT. With a strong portion of its workforce dedicated to design verification (DV) capacity, BITSILICA will significantly strengthen Quest Global’s capabilities across functional and formal verification, gate-level simulations, power-aware verification, validation and emulation. This will further support Quest Global to solve complex engineering challenges for its automotive semiconductor clients.
Ajit Prabhu, Co-founder and CEO, Quest Global, said, “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.”