Enovix Establishes R&D Center of Excellence in India to Accelerate AI-2鈩� Platform Development
Enovix (Nasdaq: ENVX) has established an 18,000-square-foot R&D Center of Excellence in Hyderabad's HITEC City, India, to accelerate the development of its AI-2鈩� battery platform. The facility employs 40 full-time staff, primarily engineers and scientists with advanced degrees.
The center will integrate electrochemical and mechanical modeling, materials development, and rapid prototyping capabilities, with a capacity to produce 2,600 prototype cells annually and test 750 small cells simultaneously. The development process will leverage Enovix's global facilities, with Korean teams developing silicon anodes 50% faster than current methods, and Malaysian facilities handling manufacturing.
The Hyderabad team has already contributed to the AI-1鈩� platform, developing an electrolyte meeting smartphone battery requirements of >900 Wh/L Energy Density, >1000 cycle life, and 3C fast charge.
Enovix (Nasdaq: ENVX) ha inaugurato un Centro di Eccellenza per Ricerca e Sviluppo di 1.670 metri quadrati nella HITEC City di Hyderabad, India, per accelerare lo sviluppo della sua piattaforma batteria AI-2鈩�. La struttura impiega 40 dipendenti a tempo pieno, principalmente ingegneri e scienziati con titoli avanzati.
Il centro integrer脿 modellazione elettrochimica e meccanica, sviluppo dei materiali e capacit脿 di prototipazione rapida, con una produzione annua di 2.600 celle prototipo e la possibilit脿 di testare 750 celle di piccole dimensioni simultaneamente. Il processo di sviluppo sfrutter脿 le strutture globali di Enovix, con i team coreani che sviluppano anodi di silicio con una velocit脿 superiore del 50% rispetto ai metodi attuali, mentre le strutture malesi si occuperanno della produzione.
Il team di Hyderabad ha gi脿 contribuito alla piattaforma AI-1鈩�, sviluppando un elettrolita che soddisfa i requisiti delle batterie per smartphone con una densit脿 energetica >900 Wh/L, una durata superiore a 1000 cicli e una ricarica rapida 3C.
Enovix (Nasdaq: ENVX) ha establecido un Centro de Excelencia en I+D de 1,670 metros cuadrados en HITEC City, Hyderabad, India, para acelerar el desarrollo de su plataforma de bater铆as AI-2鈩�. La instalaci贸n emplea a 40 empleados a tiempo completo, principalmente ingenieros y cient铆ficos con t铆tulos avanzados.
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Enovix (Nasdaq : ENVX) a cr茅茅 un centre d'excellence en R&D de 1 670 m猫tres carr茅s 脿 HITEC City, Hyderabad, en Inde, afin d'acc茅l茅rer le d茅veloppement de sa plateforme de batteries AI-2鈩�. L'installation emploie 40 collaborateurs 脿 temps plein, principalement des ing茅nieurs et scientifiques dipl么m茅s.
Le centre int茅grera la mod茅lisation 茅lectrochimique et m茅canique, le d茅veloppement des mat茅riaux et les capacit茅s de prototypage rapide, avec une capacit茅 de production de 2 600 cellules prototypes par an et la possibilit茅 de tester 750 petites cellules simultan茅ment. Le processus de d茅veloppement s'appuiera sur les installations mondiales d'Enovix, avec des 茅quipes cor茅ennes d茅veloppant des anodes en silicium 50 % plus rapidement que les m茅thodes actuelles, tandis que les installations malaisiennes g茅reront la fabrication.
L'茅quipe d'Hyderabad a d茅j脿 contribu茅 脿 la plateforme AI-1鈩�, d茅veloppant un 茅lectrolyte r茅pondant aux exigences des batteries de smartphones avec une densit茅 茅nerg茅tique >900 Wh/L, une dur茅e de vie de plus de 1000 cycles et une charge rapide 3C.
Enovix (Nasdaq: ENVX) hat ein 18.000 Quadratfu脽 gro脽es Forschungs- und Entwicklungszentrum im HITEC City von Hyderabad, Indien, eingerichtet, um die Entwicklung seiner AI-2鈩� Batterietechnologie zu beschleunigen. Die Einrichtung besch盲ftigt 40 Vollzeitmitarbeiter, haupts盲chlich Ingenieure und Wissenschaftler mit fortgeschrittenen Abschl眉ssen.
Das Zentrum wird elektrochemische und mechanische Modellierung, Materialentwicklung und Rapid-Prototyping-F盲higkeiten integrieren und kann j盲hrlich 2.600 Prototypzellen herstellen sowie 750 kleine Zellen gleichzeitig testen. Der Entwicklungsprozess nutzt Enovix' globale Einrichtungen, wobei koreanische Teams Siliziumanoden 50 % schneller als bisherige Methoden entwickeln und malaysische Einrichtungen die Fertigung 眉bernehmen.
Das Team in Hyderabad hat bereits zur AI-1鈩� Plattform beigetragen, indem es einen Elektrolyten entwickelt hat, der die Anforderungen von Smartphone-Batterien mit einer Energiedichte von >900 Wh/L, einer Zyklenlebensdauer von >1000 und einer 3C Schnellladef盲higkeit 别谤蹿眉濒濒迟.
- New R&D Center enables 50% faster development time for silicon anodes
- Integration of prototype manufacturing with HVM line eliminates significant time loss in process transfer
- Facility can produce 2,600 prototype cells annually and test 750 cells simultaneously
- Successful development of high-performance electrolyte meeting smartphone battery specifications
- Previous AI-1 technology faced delays in achieving production-worthy status
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Enovix's new R&D center in India aims to solve previous AI-1 production delays while accelerating next-gen battery technology development.
Enovix's establishment of an R&D Center of Excellence in Hyderabad represents a strategic operational enhancement designed to address previous production challenges. The company is implementing a globally distributed development approach for its AI-2 battery platform that should reduce time-to-market by approximately 50% compared to their previous technology cycle. This appears to be a direct response to acknowledged delays in making their AI-1 platform production-ready.
The technical specifications mentioned for their smartphone battery technology鈥�>900 Wh/L energy density, >1000 cycle life, and 3C fast charge capability鈥攁re indeed impressive metrics that exceed typical lithium-ion battery performance. The Hyderabad team's contributions to electrolyte formulation and mechanical constraints demonstrate they're tackling the critical challenges in silicon-anode battery development: managing silicon's expansion during charging while maintaining structural integrity.
The distributed manufacturing strategy is particularly noteworthy: Korea handling the silicon anode production, Malaysia managing prototyping directly on high-volume manufacturing lines, and testing in Penang. This integration eliminates the typical R&D-to-manufacturing transfer delay that apparently plagued their AI-1 platform. The capability to produce 2,600 prototype cells annually with 750 simultaneous test positions gives them substantial experimental throughput for iterative optimization.
The Intel-inspired parallel development model mentioned by Chairman Rodgers鈥攈aving teams simultaneously working on current and next-generation technologies鈥攊s a proven approach in semiconductor development that could indeed accelerate battery innovation cycles if properly executed.
FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enovix聽Corporation (Nasdaq:聽ENVX) (鈥淐ompany鈥� or 鈥淓novix鈥�), a global high-performance battery company, today announced that it has created an R&D Center of Excellence in Hyderabad, India to accelerate the development of its Artificial Intelligence ClassTM second-generation battery platform AI-2TM into 2025.聽
The new Enovix 18,000-square-foot R&D facility in Hyderabad鈥檚 prestigious 鈥淗ITEC City鈥� with neighbors Google, Micron, Intel, etc., now employs about 40 full-time employees, most of whom are engineers and scientists with advanced degrees, including a deep bench of electrochemists and materials scientists. The India team uses advanced battery modeling and cutting-edge machine learning that will accelerate the first prototypes on the Enovix AI-2 platform for engineering evaluation this year.
The AI-2 product development will utilize every Enovix world-wide site to reduce development time, as shown below. Our Korean team will develop and manufacture the 115mm-wide, 0.3-mile long rolls of AI-2 silicon anodes with next-generation silicon anode materials deposited on a very thin copper foil layer 鈥� in a timeframe
The Hyderabad R&D team鈥檚 expertise in electrochemistry and mechanical modeling played a critical role in the development of the AI-1鈩� platform. They invented the electrolyte that meets the smartphone battery requirements- >900 Wh/L Energy Density, >1000 cycle life, and 3C fast charge. In addition to contributing to the structural integrity of AI-1, they have also now created an innovative constraint for AI-2 that maintains mechanical robustness while improving performance and energy density. The Hyderabad battery lab can produce about 2,600 coin and small pouch cell prototypes per year for fast, early rapid materials evaluation. And the test area can test up to 750 small cells simultaneously.
Enovix CEO, Raj Talluri, said, 鈥淔rom my experience at building similar high-performance teams at TI, Qualcomm, and Micron 鈥� India has always had a tremendous depth of engineering talent. By integrating modeling, materials development and rapid prototyping under one roof, our R&D Center accelerates innovation, as has already been demonstrated on our AI-1 platform.鈥澛犅犅犅犅�
T.J.聽Rodgers, Enovix Chairman, added, 鈥淲e took longer than we wanted in getting the AI-1 production-worthy, and we consider the Hyderabad R&D center to be a permanent organizational improvement to prevent that kind of delay in the future. India has an excellent educational system in which the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are at the Cal Tech and MIT level. India still has extremely rigorous pre-college testing to separate out the top
Rodgers concluded, 鈥淚ntel dominated microprocessors for four decades by relying on the one-two punch of having parallel R&D teams working on both generation N and generation N+1 of a given technology at the same time. We now have ninety engineers in two groups that give us the one-two punch 鈥� at a price we can afford.鈥�
About Enovix Corporation
Enovix is on a mission to deliver high-performance batteries that unlock the full potential of technology products. Everything from IoT, mobile, and computing devices, to the vehicle you drive, needs a better battery. Enovix partners with OEMs worldwide to usher in a new era of user experiences. Our innovative, materials-agnostic approach to building a higher performing battery without compromising safety keeps us flexible and on the cutting-edge of battery technology innovation.
Enovix is headquartered in Silicon Valley with facilities in India, South Korea and Malaysia. For more information visit 聽and follow us on.
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