Pakistan’s First Chip Design Company – Rapid Silicon

Field Programmable Gate Array (FGPA) is a type of computer chip designed and programmed by FGPA companies. FGPA is a semiconductor IC that comprises different electronic features altered by the product designer.

The world’s leading open-source FGPA company Rapid Silicon utilizes AI technology and open-source methodology to provide domain-specific FGPA’s for diverse target applications. These methodologies enable a swift and impeccable design experience.

 Rapid Silicon provides various domain-specific FGPA’s for diverse applications, multiple industry verticals, and a variety of PPA needs.

Rapid Silicon has announced plans to set up its first chip design company in Lahore, Pakistan in October 2021. The company offers this establishment with 60 engineers and has announced $15 million in seed funding mentioned in the tweet of Senator Shibli Faraz, the Minister of Science and Technology of Pakistan.

The seed funding has been raised from venture capital firms such as ChengWei Capital and Cambium Capital working in the IT domain.

This initiative brought countless opportunities for the engineers and graduates of Computer Science in Pakistan and picked up the cultural city as Lahore is evolving as the IT capital of Pakistan.

Rapid Silicon is a company based in San Jose and Shanghai led by Dr. Naveed Sherwani who is the Chairman and CEO of the company. Naveed is a well-known semiconductor industry veteran with 30 years of engineering, entrepreneurial, and management experience.

The company pioneered in providing Open Source FGPA Foundation and adopting methodologies to stimulate technological innovation globally. Rapid Silicon has created a great team of innovators who bolster the establishment of more headquarters and offices in Europe and Asia.