Ajat Hukkoo

VP ASIC @ Etched

Cupertino, California, United States

About

I've spend decades working in silicon, have shipped nine A0 chips, and put hundreds of millions of devices into volume production. Today I lead ASIC engineering at Etched, building hardware for frontier inference. Before that I built first-of-their-kind systems at Intel (Bonanza Mine 2, an FHE accelerator) and across 14 years at Broadcom, where as Distinguished Engineer and Director I led the company's first 4G/LTE SoC and its first integrated 3G and 2G radio-baseband-PMU devices to volume. A technologist by training, I love building new businesses — my expertise spans cellular SoCs, RISC-V systems, and cryptocurrency accelerators.

Experience

  • Vice President ASIC Engineering at Etched
    Aug 2023 - Present · 3 yrs

    Hardware for frontier inference

  • Vice President of Engineering, Custom Silicon Engineering Group at Intel Corporation
    Aug 2014 - Aug 2023 · 9 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for SoC and system development for Bonanza Mine 2 - second Bitcoin accelerator Responsible for SoC design and execution for Fully Homomorphic Encryption accelerator. Sr. Director, Chipsets and IP Group Responsible for SoC design and engineering: - JellyFish - Vision AI accelerator - Clover Falls - Always on facial recognition device, A0 success. Testchips on Intel 7/4/3 nodes - Bonanza Mine1 - Bitcoin accelerator, A0 success. - Horse Creek - First RISC-V SoC on Intel 4, A0 success. Sr. Director, Design Development Group Responsible for BaseIA - ATOM CPU's with AMBA interfaces. Two A0 cellular SoC's with our partner - Spreadtrum. Engineering, business development and roadmap planning.

  • Broadcom (14 yrs 6 mos)
    • Distinguished Engineer, Director, Engineering
      2000 - Jun 2014 · 14 yrs 6 mos

      Responsible for definition, design and execution of Broadcom's first 4G/LTE SoC, including system partition definition between baseband SoC, RF and PMU for lowest cost, fastest time to market and best system performance. I worked on Cellular SoC front end design engineering. Was responsible for end-to-end product definition to volume ramp.

    • Distinguished Engineer, Sr. Manager, IC Design Engineering
      2006 - 2009 · 3 yrs

      Responsible for definition, design and execution of Samoa, Broadcom’s first integrated 3G Radio, 3G baseband and PMU device: Lead a company-wide cross functional team across three time zones to achieve first time success. Elected Broadcom Distinguished Engineer.

    • Sr. Principal Engineer
      2004 - 2006 · 2 yrs

      Responsible for design and implementation of Juno (100m+ units sold), Broadcom’s first 2G baseband with integrated radio. Led Nokia facing technical program management while taking the device to volume production. Juno and Venus were both A0 successes.

  • Member of Technical Staff at Silicon Spice
    1999 - 2000 · 1 yr

    Responsible for setting up layout and implementation flows. Led the implementation of 1500 and 1510, VOIP access concentrators. Acquired by Broadcom for $1.2B.

  • Member of Technical Staff at Equator Technologies
    1996 - 1998 · 2 yrs

    Responsible for setting up layout and implementation flows, full chip layout extraction, verification. Acquired by Pixelworks for $XXXm