US semiconductor company Mythic AI has established a Bengaluru centre of excellence as it expands its engineering and commercial presence in India. The company currently employs close to 20 people in the country and plans to increase the team to more than 60 by the end of the first quarter of 2027. Recruitment will cover chip design, physical design, design-for-test, systems engineering, applications engineering and other specialised semiconductor disciplines.
The centre will initially focus on Vanguard, Mythic’s next-generation AI inference platform. Its mandate is expected to expand into product engineering, test and characterisation, systems development and intelligent-sensing chips. Manoj Kumar, vice-president of Mythic India, is leading the local operation. Kumar has identified Bengaluru’s concentration of digital, analogue, software, product-engineering and semiconductor-testing skills as central to the company’s decision to build a multidisciplinary team in the city.
Mythic develops analogue compute-in-memory technology, which performs AI calculations within or close to the memory array instead of repeatedly moving data between memory and a conventional processor. The architecture is intended to reduce the energy consumption, latency and data-movement overhead associated with AI inference. The company is targeting automotive and advanced driver-assistance systems, industrial and consumer robotics, enterprise AI, defence, security systems and edge-computing devices. India is also being evaluated as a market for data-centre inference and robotics deployments.
Chairman and chief executive Taner Ozcelik, a former Nvidia automotive executive, is overseeing the expansion. Mythic was founded in 2012 and operates from Austin and Palo Alto. The company has been rebuilding and broadening its technology portfolio after raising $125 million in an oversubscribed financing announced in December 2025. It subsequently acquired German processor-intellectual-property company Videantis, combining analogue compute-in-memory with digital processor capabilities. Mythic is also working with Honda on an analogue AI chip for next-generation vehicles, targeting substantially higher energy efficiency for automotive workloads.
The Bengaluru operation adds another specialised AI-hardware engineering centre to India’s semiconductor ecosystem. Unlike facilities focused principally on verification, support or global delivery, Mythic says the centre will contribute to core semiconductor development across analogue and digital design, physical implementation, software and system-level engineering. The planned tripling of headcount remains subject to execution and hiring conditions, but the company has set Q1 2027 as its initial expansion milestone.
