£10m space deal drives new EnSilica Cambridge hub
EnSilica has opened a new engineering hub in Cambridge on the back of a key deal for space semiconductor designs.
The hub, with six staff, brings the company’s global workforce to 190 and expands the existing millimetre wave (mmWave) and RF integrated circuit design capabilities.
The hub will support the recent £10m C-LEO award by the UK Space Agency to develop chips and software for a satellite terminal that can be used with the next generation of constellations in low earth orbit (LEO), particularly Eutelsat OneWeb. Filtronic last week signed a deal for mmWave components for the next generation OneWeb satellites.
The Cambridge hub joins three UK engineering design centres in Abingdon, Sheffield and Bristol, alongside additional international engineering facilities in Bangalore, India, and Porto Alegre and Campinas in Brazil.
“We are delighted to have not only secured a team of highly skilled engineers at a time when there is a very real shortage of engineering talent in the UK, but also to establish a firm base in an established UK tech hub like Cambridge, which ideally positions the business to attract additional talent,2 said Ian Lankshear, Chief Executive Officer of EnSilica.
“y further expanding our engineering know-how across the satellite and communications market, I believe that this investment will enable the business to capitalise further on very real and near-term growth opportunities.”
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