Quest Global, the world’s largest independent pure-play engineering services company, has announced the acquisition of India-based semiconductor design services firm BITSILICA, a strategic move that strengthens its semiconductor portfolio and expands support for global chip customers. The acquisition also accelerates Quest Global’s vision of building full-stack engineering capabilities spanning concept-to-silicon-to-software.
Through this acquisition, BITSILICA will benefit from Quest Global’s 25+ years of deep engineering expertise and trusted customer partnerships in solving complex technology challenges. BITSILICA’s strong capabilities in IP, subsystem and SoC design, design verification, physical design, and embedded systems will complement Quest Global’s existing semiconductor strengths. Together, the combined teams are well positioned to scale operations faster, enhance innovation, and deliver advanced semiconductor solutions to customers worldwide.
Founded in 2019, BITSILICA brings deep expertise across ASIC Design, Design Verification, physical design, DFT, and embedded software. With over 500 engineers across India (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 highly complex engineering challenges for its automotive semiconductor clients.
Ajit Prabhu, Co-Founder and CEO, Quest Global commented, “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.”
Quest Global’s acquisition of BITSILICA marks a pivotal step forward, strengthening its leadership in the semiconductor industry. This strategic move underscores a shared commitment to innovation, uncompromising quality, and customer success while shaping a smarter, more connected future together.
