Engineering the silicon, intelligence & industry of tomorrow.
The Daffodil Semiconductor & Advanced Technology Initiative unites industry, academia, and government to build sovereign capability in chip design, AI systems, robotics and advanced software.
Capabilities
Deep-tech pillars we build on
Semiconductor Packaging & Testing
Turn-key IC packaging, characterisation and reliability testing for design partners across Asia.
AI & Machine Intelligence Lab
Applied foundation-model, computer-vision and speech research on a shared GPU platform.
Robotics & Automation
From perception stacks to full robotic cells for factories and inspection.
Advanced Materials Research
Novel materials for semiconductor, energy storage and photonics applications.
Chip Design & Verification
RTL, physical design, and pre-silicon verification for RISC-V and custom accelerators.
Embedded Software Engineering
Real-time firmware, board bring-up, and mission-critical embedded platforms.
Showcases
Featured labs, products & projects
Product
Aparna-1 RISC-V Edge AI SoC
A 28nm domain-specific RISC-V SoC for on-device vision inference at 4 TOPS/W.
Lab
DAF-Lab // Cleanroom Class-1000
350 m² shared cleanroom for prototyping, characterisation and pilot packaging.
Project
Bengali Foundation LLM v1
A 7B-parameter Bengali-first open LLM trained on 400B tokens of curated text.
Labs & facilities
Cleanroom, characterisation, GPU compute, robotics
Researchers
Faculty, postdocs and doctoral candidates
Ecosystem partners
OEMs, universities and government agencies
Filed patents
Semiconductors, robotics, AI systems
Resource Library
Latest whitepapers & briefs
Sovereign Silicon: A Roadmap for Bangladesh
A 32-page roadmap for building sovereign silicon capability in Bangladesh over the next decade.
Download PDFAparna-1 SoC Datasheet
Preliminary datasheet for the Aparna-1 edge-AI RISC-V SoC.
Download PDFBengali Foundation LLM v1 Technical Report
Architecture, training data mix and evaluation of the Bengali Foundation LLM.
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Newsroom
Recent from the ecosystem
Jul 23, 2026 · Chowdhury Karim
Aparna-1 Tapes Out on TSMC 28HPC+
We taped out our first RISC-V edge-AI SoC — a major milestone for the ecosystem.
Jul 17, 2026 · Nusrat Islam
DAF-Lab Cleanroom Opens to Partners
The 350 m² Class-1000 cleanroom is now bookable by academic and industry partners.
Jul 11, 2026 · Rezaul Karim
Bengali Foundation LLM v1 Released Openly
Our 7B-parameter Bengali-first foundation model is available under Apache-2.0.