NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, and BENGALURU, INDIA – Outsourcing giant Accenture has acquired Cientra, a custom silicon solutions provider.
This strategic acquisition enhances Accenture’s expertise in silicon design, adding around 530 skilled engineers to its Advanced Technology Centers in India.
“Everything from data center expansion to cloud computing, wireless technologies, edge computing, and the proliferation of AI are driving demand for next-generation silicon products,” said Karthik Narain, group chief executive of Technology at Accenture.
“Our acquisition of Cientra is our latest move to expand our silicon design and engineering capabilities and it underscores our commitment to helping our clients maximize value and reinvent themselves in this space.”
Global presence and expertise
Cientra, headquartered in New Jersey, USA, with offices in Frankfurt, Germany, and multiple locations in India including Bangalore, Hyderabad, and New Delhi, brings extensive expertise in embedded IoT and application-specific integrated circuit design and verification.
This acquisition augments Accenture’s silicon design capabilities, enhancing its ability to accelerate semiconductor innovation.
Cientra possesses extensive expertise in engineering, development, and testing across hardware, software, and network domains, particularly in the automotive, telecommunications, and high-tech sectors.
“Since inception, Cientra has been dedicated to building top talent and fostering continuous innovation, developing product solutions that drive value for our clients,” said Anil Kempanna, CEO of Cientra. “Joining Accenture provides exciting opportunities to expand globally and scale our capabilities to create new avenues of growth for our clients as well as our people.”
This acquisition follows Accenture’s recent addition of Excelmax Technologies, a semiconductor design services provider based in Bangalore, India, and XtremeEDA, a silicon design services company based in Ottawa, Canada, acquired in 2022.
Terms of this deal remain undisclosed.
