Building an AI Chip?
24-33 months in-house development. 60-70% first-attempt success rate (industry average). $2-3M respin if you miss timing. Or acquire production-ready IP.
Three Paths. Two Are Painful.
Build In-House
- Team Cost: 5 NPU architects × $100-150K/year$500K-$750K annually
- Timeline: 24-33 months to production-ready RTL
- Success Rate: 60-70% on first attempt (industry average)
- Total Exposure: $1.5M-$2.5M before you know if it works
License Traditional IP (ARM, Cadence, etc.)
- Upfront Fee: $200K-$500K
- Per-chip Royalty: 2-5% of ASP forever
- At 1M units: $50 ASP × 3% royalty$1.5M royalty bleed
- At 10M units: Lifetime royalty$15M
Acquire Production-Ready IP (Asset Transfer)
- Fee: One-time acquisition fee
- Royalties: Zero. Zero per-chip fees. Forever.
- Ownership: Full RTL source code ownership
- Timeline: Integration in weeks, not years
Own the Asset. Control the Source. Keep 100% of Your Margin.
Silicon-Ready. Not Slideware.
| Validation | Result |
|---|---|
| PE Energy Efficiency | 60-66 TOPS/W (pre-layout, ASAP7 7nm) |
| Energy per MAC | 30-33 femtojoules |
| Formal Verification | 16/16 Properties Proven (Mathematical Guarantee) |
| Gate-Level Equivalence | 97% RTL-to-Gate Match |
| FPGA Timing Closure | 146 MHz (Lattice ECP5-85F) |
| ASIC Synthesis | DRC=0, LVS=Clean (SkyWater 130nm) |
Built by Engineers. Backed by Execution.
BPcore Silicon is a Mumbai-based semiconductor IP company founded by Bandhan Patil, an IT engineer from Mumbai University with years of entrepreneurial experience running a successful chemical manufacturing business.
“I learned something in manufacturing that applies directly to silicon: execution matters more than theory. When a customer depends on your product, you ship quality — no excuses.”
That operational discipline shaped how we built NeuraEdge:
- 2.5 years from concept to production-ready RTL
- 34,726 lines of verified, lint-clean code
- 16/16 formal properties mathematically proven
- Lean team — when you call, you talk to the people who wrote the Verilog
Bandhan Patil
Founder & Chief Architect
We're not a large IP house with ticket queues and 6-week response times. We're a focused team that treats your tape-out deadline like our own.
Making World-Class NPU IP Accessible to Indian Semiconductor Teams
India's semiconductor ecosystem is at an inflection point. Hundreds of fabless companies are racing to build AI-enabled SoCs—but most face an impossible choice: spend $1.5-2.5M building NPU IP from scratch, or pay royalties forever to foreign IP vendors.
We built BPcore Silicon to offer a third path.
| What We Believe | How We Act |
|---|---|
| Engineers deserve source code | No encrypted RTL. No black boxes. You own what you buy. |
| Indian teams deserve Indian pricing | Economics designed for this market, not Valley budgets. |
| Verification is non-negotiable | 16/16 formal proofs, 53/53 tests, before we ship anything. |
| Your success isn't our revenue stream | Zero royalties. Your margins stay yours—forever. |
| Support means talking to engineers | No ticket queues. Direct access to the architects who built it. |
Our Goal: Help 100 Indian semiconductor companies tape out AI-enabled chips with technology they own, not rent.
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