Graphcore, a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group, is opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru, creating 500 new semiconductor jobs, with an investment of up to £1bn over the next decade.
The AI Engineering Campus will play a central role in Graphcore’s work, building the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing, helping to realize SoftBank Group’s vision of becoming the leading Artificial Super Intelligence platform provider.
We are immediately starting to hire the first 100 AI semiconductor engineering roles in India, including Silicon Logical Design, Physical Design, Verification, Characterization and Bring-up.
Graphcore’s presence in India is made possible by the ongoing investment of SoftBank Group into our company. That is expected to reach £1bn per annum, in the next couple of years – and will also see a doubling in Graphcore’s headcount in the UK to around 750 people, mainly highly skilled silicon engineering, software and AI engineering roles.
Since acquiring Graphcore in 2024, SoftBank Group has announced a series of AI compute infrastructure initiatives, including the $500bn Stargate infrastructure project, in partnership with OpenAI and Oracle.
Graphcore’s engineers in Bengaluru will be developing semiconductor products for use by the world’s leading AI practitioners – to help solve global challenges in drug discovery and public health, environmental sustainability and to improve business productivity.
Across its wider operations, SoftBank Group has invested more than $12bn in India over the past decade.
India’s Silicon Valley
The decision to locate Graphcore’s new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru was an easy one. Even in a country filled with technology engineering talent, Bengaluru stands out.
The ecosystem of world-class universities, high-growth startups, and established multinational technology has earned it the nickname ‘India’s Silicon Valley’.
Both the Indian Government and Prime Minister Modi have demonstrated a deep understanding of the economic value of the semiconductor sector, creating a number of national initiatives to foster the specialist skills that the industry requires. We hope that Graphcore will play a role in helping to build that national capability.
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