Enovix establishes R&D Center of Excellence in India

Enovix (ENVX) has created an R&D Center of Excellence in Hyderabad, India to accelerate the development of its Artificial Intelligence Class second-generation battery platform AI-2 into 2025. The new Enovix 18,000-square-foot R&D facility in Hyderabad’s prestigious “HITEC City” 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 – in a timeframe 50% faster than our current approach. Then, the prototype batteries will be manufactured in Malaysia directly on our high volume manufacturing (HVM) line, eliminating the significant time loss of transferring R&D processes to manufacturing, as happened with our AI-1 technology. The new AI-2 samples will also be tested in Penang to develop production test programs and then fully characterized by our Fremont R&D team. By uniting electrochemical and mechanical modeling, materials development, and rapid prototyping under one roof, the Hyderabad R&D Center will speed up AI-2 development.