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          <lang class="3" style="Headline1" font="Chronicle Display" fontStyle="Roman" size="28">Kandou AI brings global chip innovation to Hyderabad</lang>
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          <lang class="3" style="Headline2" font="Franklin Gothic Demi Cond" fontStyle="Regular" size="16">India headquarters to accelerate AI infrastructure development and semiconductor research</lang>
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        <lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" font="Minion Pro" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">Hyderabad</lang>
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        <lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" font="Minion Pro" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">KandouAI on Friday announced the inauguration of its India Chip Design headquarters in Hyderabad, marking a significant milestone in the company’s global engineering expansion and its efforts to strengthen AI infrastructure development.</lang>
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        <lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" font="Minion Pro" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">The new Hyderabad headquarters will serve as a strategic engineering hub for advanced semiconductor design, high-speed connectivity and next-generation AI system development.</lang>
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        <lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" font="Minion Pro" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">With AI workloads expanding rapidly, the technology sector faces increasing demand for faster data movement, improved bandwidth and greater energy efficiency. From data centres to high-performance computing platforms, advanced connectivity has emerged as a critical component. Kandou AI’s semiconductor solutions are designed to address these challenges by improving bandwidth, reducing latency and enhancing energy efficiency across modern computing architectures. The Hyderabad centre marks a major expansion of Kandou AI’s global engineering footprint, strengthening its capabilities in developing and scaling semiconductor and AI infrastructure technologies. Located in one of India’s leading technology and semiconductor hubs, the facility will house key engineering functions, including chip design, verification, validation, firmware, software, systems engineering and customer-facing technical teams.</lang>
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        <lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" font="Minion Pro" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">The new centre is expected to foster closer collaboration, accelerate innovation and support Kandou AI’s customers worldwide.</lang>
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        <lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" font="Minion Pro" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">The headquarters was inaugurated in the presence of employees, customers, partners, industry leaders and government representatives. The event featured a traditional diya-lighting ceremony, a fireside chat and demonstrations of Kandou AI’s next-generation AI infrastructure technologies, followed by a networking reception.</lang>
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        <lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" font="Minion Pro" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">The inauguration was attended by BRS working president KT Rama Rao and hosted by Kandou AI CEO and Co-Founder Srujan Linga.</lang>
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        <lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" font="Minion Pro" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">KTR said Hyderabad’s success has been built on its strong talent pool, industry collaboration and technology-driven growth vision.</lang>
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        <lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" font="Minion Pro" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">“Kandou AI’s decision to establish its India headquarters here is another testament to Hyderabad’s emergence as a globally recognised semiconductor and deep technology hub. I congratulate the Kandou AI team and look forward to seeing the company contribute to innovation, high-value employment and the continued growth of Telangana’s semiconductor ecosystem,” he said.</lang>
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