KaiSemi Opens New Office at Technopark

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
Aiming at ramping up country’s presence in semiconductor sector, Technopark-based KaiSemi Control Systems that designs control systems for semiconductor equipment opened its new office at Technopark here today.

Minister for IT, Startup and Industries P K Kunhalikutty inaugurated the 5000 sqft facility on the first floor of Kallayi Building at Technopark Phase-1.

Seeram Samabasiva Rao, Special Secretary, Department of Electronics & IT, Govt. of Kerala, and Sandip Kumar, CEO, Technopark, were also present.

While interacting with the officials and foreign clients of KaiSemi, Kunhalikutty urged them to leverage the abundant talent pool available in Kerala, especially in the capital city. The Minister also wanted the professionals and entrepreneurs to leverage the State’s IT sector to lap up the global opportunities in semiconductor development.

Kingston Semiconductor founder Jeff Boeker, who is also the Managing Director of KaiSemi, said the world-class infrastructure in Technopark and skills of youth have contributed to the growth of the company.

Anu Joseph, Fahad Abdul Salam and Tony Joseph, who is also the CEO of Agentiv-X, are the Directors of the company.

Madhavan Praveen, CTO, Technopark; Vipin Kumar S, CFO, Kerala IT Parks; Vasanth Varada, Deputy Vice President (Marketing & Customer Relationship); Abhilash D S, Assistant Vice President (Administration & Industrial Relations); and V. Sreekumar, GTech Secretary and Centre Head, Tata Elxsi, also attended.

The company is developing world-class control system software for operating highly complex and giant machines like ionic implanters, being used for manufacturing chips. These software systems precisely control the robotics, valve controlling mechanism, beam controlling, beam tuning and complex algorithms of the chip manufacturing facility.

Semiconductor chips are vital components in modern equipment like smartphones, cars, rockets and defence mechanism. Currently, Taiwan, US and South Korea are the leading players in the sector. In the wake of Covid-19, the country’s automobile industry had faced severe crisis due to paucity of chips. As part of attaining self-sufficiency in the production of chips, the Central Government encouraged its indigenous production and also started to provide funding.

Presently, KaiSemi is exporting its software products to the fabrication units in countries like Singapore, South Korea, China and Vietnam. In the next phase, the company is planning to set up its own machine development facility.