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Engineer Your Silicon, Own Your Hyperscale Future

Custom ASICs are Complementing GPUs for Differentiation

Rising AI CapEx and growing reliance on merchant GPU supply and need for differentiation are driving hyperscalers to build their own accelerators, NICs and DPUs. This shift brings new engineering complexity—from model-aware silicon design and heterogeneous data center stacks to supply chains under constant time-to-market pressure.

HCLTech’s Hyperscale Silicon Lifecycle Platform (HSLP) addresses this complexity end to end, spanning ASIC design in advanced process nodes, model-to-silicon co-design, platform development, platform and cluster validation and Silicon NPI—through one partner across the journey from silicon to rack scale.

The GPU-first era is ending. Is your silicon ready?
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Why Hyperscalers are Betting Big on Custom Silicon

Lower AI TCO

Custom accelerators and performance-per-watt co-optimization cut inference cost per token and reduce dependency on a single GPU vendor.

Fewer silicon respins

Model-to-silicon co-design and digital-twin validation catch issues before tapeout, resulting in significant reduction in silicon release to high volume manufacturing.

Validated, observable platforms

Unified firmware and observability stacks let mixed Nvidia, Arm and custom-ASIC racks run and report as one qualified platform.

Shorter time-to-market

Advanced-node readiness and multi-foundry, multi-OSAT sourcing keep tapeout-to-volume on schedule despite fab or supply shocks.

Our Services

Silicon Engineering Built to Scale Hyperscale Programs

The silicon depth hyperscale programs need—first silicon success/reduce respins, energy efficiency improve yield and ensure racks meet performance targets from day one.

Design

Custom silicon design

  • Accelerator, NIC and DPU design acceleration
  • Low power designs
  • Chiplet integration and 2.5D/3D packaging
  • Digital twin validation, pre- to post-silicon

Characterization

Silicon characterization and labs

  • PVT / ATE and performance-per-watt profiling
  • Multi-foundry yield analytics and binning
  • Global labs across the US, India and Taiwan

Hardware

Hardware and platform design

  • Board, package and thermal design—chip and data center
  • Reference server/rack platform blueprints
  • Power and thermal digital twins

Platform SW

Platform software and firmware

  • BIOS, UEFI and bare-metal driver development
  • Unified firmware and fleet observability stack
  • Runtime porting, kernel and operator tuning

Validation

Platform and cluster validation

  • Functional, stress and security testing
  • Mixed-architecture platform qualification
  • Rack-scale interconnect and fabric validation

Manufacturing

Manufacturing and supply operations

  • Advanced node readiness on leading process nodes (TSMC N2, Intel 18A, Samsung SF2, Rapidus 2nm)
  • Silicon NPI offerings with state-of-the-art NPI labs and known-good-die strategy
  • Parallel, multi-foundry supply de-risking

Tooling

HSLP tooling platform

  • Cross-architecture benchmarking suite
  • Multi-arch workload portability toolkit

What Our HSLP Engineering Delivers

1.5–2x

Tokens per watt versus merchant-GPU inference baselines

30%

Faster ASIC design cycles, tapeout in 12–15 months vs. 18-21

95%

First silicon success

60%–85%

Cluster utilization through workload-aware orchestration

Our Approach

Where most silicon programs get optimized layer by layer, we validate the entire stack against real production workloads before it ever reaches the rack.

Accelerate custom silicon programs

Our 2,000+ silicon design engineers, 6,000+ silicon platform engineers and proven spec-to-tapeout workflows shorten design cycles from 18–21 months to 12–15 months while reducing costly respins.

Optimize performance per watt

Silicon, firmware and workload co-tuning is built to outperform merchant-GPU economics on inference total cost of ownership.

Validate heterogeneous data center stacks

Mixed Nvidia GPU, Arm CPU and custom-ASIC racks are qualified as one interoperable platform, not a patchwork of point solutions.

De-risk the silicon supply chain

Advanced-node readiness and silicon NPI offerings supported by Lab infrastructure protect schedule against fab delays, geopolitical shocks and packaging yield loss.

Why HCLTech

The Partner that Scales with Your Silicon Ambitions

Proven at hyperscale grade silicon programs in production.

Deep hyperscale engagement

Long-standing delivery relationships across leading hyperscale, cloud and device silicon programs.

End-to-end HSLP pedigree

Silicon, board, platform, firmware and manufacturing capability under a single accountable roof.

Model-to-silicon co-design

Cross-functional teams bridge ML and hardware so silicon is defined by real workloads, not the reverse.

Advanced node readiness

Pre-qualified PDKs, IP and signoff flows across leading-edge process nodes.

Multi-foundry and OSAT ecosystem

Coordinated packaging and assembly partnerships across the leading foundry and OSAT ecosystem.

Global silicon labs

Purpose-built characterization and validation labs spanning the US, India and Taiwan.

Delivery at hyperscale

An established, scalable engineering footprint built to match hyperscaler program velocity.

Active across the broader stack

Beyond the core silicon lifecycle, we already run active engineering lines in networking/NIC, value engineering, robotics, fab/optical labs and lab-as-a-service across the hyperscale ecosystem.

Ready to Own Your Silicon Roadmap?

Talk to our hyperscale silicon engineering team about your next accelerator, platform or rack-scale program.

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