Graphcore, a UK-based AI chipmaker and a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank, is opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru, creating 500 new semiconductor jobs, with a plan to invest £1 billion (around $1.3 billion) in India over the next ten years.
The AI Engineering Campus will play a central role in Graphcore’s work, building the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing, helping to realize SoftBank Group’s vision of becoming the leading Artificial Super Intelligence platform provider.
Initially, Graphcore will hire the first 100 AI semiconductor engineering roles in India, including Silicon Logical Design, Physical Design, Verification, Characterization and Bring-up.
Graphcore’s engineers in Bengaluru will be developing semiconductor products for use by the world’s leading AI practitioners, to help solve global challenges in drug discovery and public health, environmental sustainability, and to improve business productivity.
Graphcore was founded in Bristol, UK, in 2016 to develop a complete AI compute stack, including silicon, datacenter infrastructure and software, and was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2024.
Since acquiring Graphcore in 2024, SoftBank Group has announced a series of AI compute infrastructure initiatives, including the $500bn Stargate infrastructure project, in partnership with OpenAI and Oracle.
Across its wider operations, SoftBank Group has invested more than $12bn in India over the past decade.
Graphcore’s presence in India is made possible by the ongoing investment of SoftBank Group into our company. That is expected to reach £1bn per annum in the next couple of years and will also see a doubling in Graphcore’s headcount in the UK to around 750 people, hiring mainly highly skilled silicon engineering, software and AI engineering roles.
