Graphcore, a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank, has opened a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru, creating 500 new semiconductor jobs, with an investment of up to $1 billion 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,” said Graphcore.
The chip designer is immediately starting to hire the first 100 AI semiconductor engineering roles in India, including roles in including roles in silicon logical design, physical design, verification, characterization, and bring-up.
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.
