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Computer hardware engineers in India design silicon, boards, and computing systems at global semiconductor and OEM companies — Intel Bangalore (Foundry IP, client SoC design), AMD India (Bangalore, Hyderabad — Zen core verification, GPU design), Nvidia India (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune — GPU and Tegra), Samsung R&D Bangalore (Exynos SoCs, memory), Qualcomm India (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai — Snapdragon modems, AI accelerators), Texas Instruments India (Bangalore — analog and embedded), Apple India design centre (Bangalore — RF, silicon), and a wave of Indian fabless startups (InCore Semiconductors, Saankhya Labs, Mindgrove, Calligo Technologies). The work spans RTL design in Verilog/SystemVerilog, verification with UVM/SystemVerilog assertions, physical design (synthesis, place-and-route on Synopsys/Cadence tools), PCB design for board-level products, FPGA prototyping, and silicon validation in labs. India-specific patterns include 60-70% of Indian VLSI engineers working at global captive R&D centres (rare to find Indian-product silicon teams outside Tata Elxsi, Tessolve, Sankalp, Mindgrove, and the government-backed Digital India RISC-V initiative). Compensation is high but the career path is narrower than software — VLSI engineers don't easily switch domains.
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