SoftBank subsidiary Graphcore, a Bristol-based company developing a comprehensive AI compute stack, is opening an AI engineering campus in Bengaluru. Engineers at the facility will focus on building semiconductor products for global AI practitioners, and Graphcore is actively seeking out engineering talent of all levels to establish its Bengaluru team.
SoftBank Group acquired Graphcore in 2024 to further its goal of becoming a prominent artificial superintelligence platform provider. Graphcore innovates in silicon, data center infrastructure and software solutions. Its Bengaluru-based team will apply this technology in areas such as drug discovery and public health, environmental sustainability and business productivity.
Graphcore plans to invest £1 billion over the next decade through its new AI engineering campus. The facility will create 500 local semiconductor jobs, with the company seeking out the first 100 immediately. Graphcore is looking to fill India-based roles in silicon logical design, physical design, verification, characterization and bring-up.
Acquiring Graphcore is one of SoftBank’s recent moves toward advancing its AI compute infrastructure. The company also initiated a multi-billion-dollar Stargate infrastructure project with OpenAI and Oracle.
