TCS Recognized as a Leader in Semiconductor Engineering Services by Everest Group

Tata Consultancy Services' Comprehensive Portfolio of Offerings, Proactive Innovation in Semiconductor Engineering Engagements, Proprietary Assets and Thought Leadership, Highlighted as Key Strengths

NEW YORK | MUMBAI, May 25, 2021: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been recognized as a Leader in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix® for Semiconductor Engineering Services¹.

In an assessment of 16 leading providers of semiconductor engineering services, TCS was placed highest for its vision and capability. Highlighted as a key strength was TCS’ comprehensive portfolio of offerings covering all service segments and product categories catering to different types of clients. According to the report, TCS proactively and collaboratively drives innovation in semiconductor engineering engagements leveraging its strong ecosystem of partners through its inhouse Co-innovation Network. It goes on to say that the company’s robust portfolio of proprietary assets and investments in thought leadership have helped it gain market traction and execute multiple high-impact projects.

“The semiconductor industry is driving technology breakthroughs that are enabling the intelligent and connected world. Aligned to our vision of building on belief, TCS is making strategic investments and creating an extensive partner ecosystem in emerging technologies such as 5G, AI, IoT, RISC-V and heterogeneous computing to help customers build purpose-driven products to drive digital transformation,” said V Rajanna, Global Head, Technology Business Unit, TCS. “This Leadership position by an independent third-party research firm is a recognition of our vision, strategy, and thought leadership.”

TCS’ comprehensive capabilities across VLSI design and verification, post-silicon engineering, firmware development, wafer yield management, and value engineering help it deliver engineering services across technology domains. TCS is making significant investments in setting-up Centers of Excellence in semiconductor design and manufacturing areas to create scale and develop innovative solutions. These solutions deliver substantial benefits to TCS’ customers and help them accelerate product innovation. These include:

TCS WAferWIse^TM: A suite of transformative solutions that leverages the power of artificial intelligence and cloud to address the core of semiconductor manufacturing processes and drive improved product quality, throughput, and yield.

TCS Virtual Platform Development: A platform to validate System on Chip (SoC) component models and create virtual prototypes of SoC. It provides model-based simulations for complex SoC designs for multicore platforms such as ARM and RISC-V.

“TCS offers a well-balanced portfolio of offerings, covering all service segments and product categories across the semiconductor engineering value chain. The company proactively and collaboratively drives innovation in semiconductor engineering engagements, leveraging its noteworthy thought leadership, a strong ecosystem of partners through its in-house Co-Innovation Network (COIN), a portfolio of proprietary assets, such as WaferWise for anomaly detection during the semiconductor manufacturing, and multiple platforms for SoC design and verification,” said Akshat Vaid, Vice President, Engineering Services, Everest Group. “TCS is well acknowledged in the market for investments across emerging themes such as AI, 5G, and IoT in the form of innovation labs and CoEs, strong domain knowledge, and technical expertise in chip design and development.”

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 488,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $22.2 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit www.tcs.com and follow TCS news at @TCS_News.

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^{1 Semiconductor Engineering Services PEAK Marix® Assessment 2021: Enabling the Hyper-connected Intelligent World, Akshat Vaid, Mayank Maria, Ojas Rajpal, Everest Group, March 30, 2021}