How EdgeQ Is Building India’s First Unified 5G + AI SoC

By Yashasvini Razdan, EETimes | October 21, 2025

When Vinay Ravuri founded EdgeQ in 2018, he dreamt of challenging the status quo in wireless infrastructure. A veteran from Qualcomm, Ravuri saw that the global wireless chip market was dominated by a handful of players, leaving little room for innovation. “I looked around and saw that when it came to wireless, there was one dominant company and then a few that I could count on my fingers,” he said. That scarcity, he realized, stemmed from the complicated web of information theory, algorithms, and chip design in wireless signal processing that had been traditionally confined within proprietary silos. 

Ravuri recognized that RISC-V, the open-standard instruction set architecture, could catalyze change much like Linux had for software. “RISC-V opened up hardware development. We were among the first to recognize that this could reduce cost and time to market. Today, almost all machine learning companies use RISC-V,” he said. That insight became the foundation for EdgeQ, a startup now building a programmable chip platform that unites 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on a single System-on-Chip (SoC).

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