WOODCLIFF LAKE, US : HCL Technologies, a prominent global technology firm, and CAST, a provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores, have announced their intention to expand their partnership to offer customized chips. This collaboration aims to empower original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across various industries to accelerate their digital transformation and automation initiatives.
HCL Technologies plans to bolster the design verification, emulation, and rapid prototyping of its turnkey system-on-chip (SoC) solutions by integrating silicon-proven IP cores and controllers from CAST. This strategic move is expected to assist OEMs in sectors such as automotive, consumer electronics, and logistics in significantly mitigating engineering risks and reducing development costs.
Vijay Guntur, President of Engineering and R&D Services at HCL Technologies, emphasized, “CAST shares our vision for innovative, industry-leading electronic systems design. Their high-quality and well-supported IP cores, combined with HCLTech’s expertise in system integration design, will enable us to provide superior custom chips to our global customers.”
Nikos Zervas, CEO of CAST, expressed his enthusiasm for the collaboration, stating, “Like CAST, HCL Technologies has a longstanding legacy of delivering exceptional semiconductor SoC solutions to their clients and partners. We are eager to collaborate with HCLTech to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and user-friendliness of semiconductor SoCs.”