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Wearable devices, IoT and other     a complete product solution or        At present, the company
        technologies need us because they   specific parts of the solution.“We    counts some of the world’s top
        do not have a semiconductor arm     are in the business of solving tough   semiconductor companies as its
        or a team to build custom silicon.”  engineering problems, and we         customers. Having started with
                                            delight our customers,on an everyday  two customers, the Eximius team

        “Team Eximius                       basis,”mentions Sarang.               now works with more than 20
                                                                                  customers across the world. “We
        consists of                         The Beginning of Eximius Design       currently have a presence in 16 out


        experienced                         Founded in 2014, Eximius has had      of 20 VLSI houses in Bangalore
                                                                                  which includes a healthy number
        industry veterans                   a humble beginning. At its start, the   of engineering heavy weights,”
                                                                                  informs Bala.
                                            team anticipated a rush of business
        and young talent                    given its leadership team’s extensive
        who work in                         industry experience. “Interestingly,   When the company started its
                                            the semiconductor space doesn’t
                                                                                  operation in Bangalore, its
        unison to achieve                   work that way. People don’t give      leadership wanted to build a
                                                                                  company that would create
                                            us business purely based on our
        impeccable results”                 past reputations. Each customer       a positive disruption in the
                                            relationship starts with the successful  semiconductor ecosystem.

        The growing market for smart        execution of a small project by a     Throwing light on its growth,
        devices, smart homes and smart      handful of engineers and evolves into  Sarang says,“In our first year, we
        cars, and more importantly, the     a much larger engagement,” mentions  were about 50 people.In the second
        need to connect them all together   Sarang.                               year, we grew to about 150 people.
        intelligently, presents an exciting                                       Today, we are 750+ strong, and
        opportunity. That is why Eximius     Team - I                             we expect to double in the next
        not only focuses on VLSI design                                           couple of years. Our scale provides
        services but boasts of a very strong
        software and systems team as
        well. Arun George,VP– Head of
        Software Division, says, “We started
        off as a pure hardware company,
        but today we have evolved into an
        all-in-one hardware, software and
        systems company. For example, we
        now have the capability to design,
        validate and integrate complex
        embedded software, connectivity
        solutions and Deep Learning
        algorithms on to custom silicon
        designed by our VLSI team which
        is then mounted on complex
        multi layered HDI boards that our
        engineers designed.”


        Turning ideas into reality, Eximius
        understands the challenges of
        customers much better than any
        other competitor in this space.
        Depending on the requirement of
        its clients,the company provides
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