The Tamil Nadu government has invested significantly in electronic hardware businesses. As a port city, Chennai is well-positioned to export these hardware products globally. These are some of the top hardware companies in Tamil Nadu’s capital city.
Hardware Companies in Chennai
- Trimble, Inc.
- Microchip Technology Inc.
- The ePlane Company
- Aero360
- Mindgrove Technologies
Top Hardware Companies in Chennai
Trimble, Inc. is a hardware and software company that develops IoT and other physical products that are supported by connected tech. The company holds over 1,000 unique patents and develops hardware for contexts like satellite system receivers, laser rangefinders and drones. Trimble specializes in GNSS — or global navigation satellite system — devices.
Microchip Technology Inc. makes a catalog of connected computer processing hardware like microcontrollers and microprocessors. The company recently received a $162 million funding package from the United States government that is earmarked for bringing a sizeable piece of Microchip Technology’s semiconductor production to U.S. fabrication sites as part of a national onshoring initiative.
The ePlane Company is an aerospace and aviation company that makes hardware components and technology for aircraft. It offers replacement and upgrade parts as well as repair services and is currently at work developing a prototype for a flying electric taxi fleet. ePlane runs a secure digital marketplace for aerospace components, which must be closely tracked to prevent possession by bad actors.
Aero360 is a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles and associated hardware components. Its fleet of unmanned drones is designed for aerial processes such as geospatial and remote sensing, surveillance and data collection as well as agricultural spraying and seeding. Aero360 is approved by India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation and has been offering its services for nearly a decade.
Mindgrove Technologies is a semiconductor manufacturing company in the hardware space. It focuses on Systems on Chips, or SoCs, which are integrated circuits that contain a system’s full suite of components on a single piece of silicon hardware. SoCs are used in mobile phones and tablets and in vehicle navigation systems.
The technology and computing company Dell Technologies is a software and hardware provider to consumers and institutions. Its hardware product lines include laptop computers that range from the budget-friendly Inspiron to the XPS line of professional-grade PCs; computing workstations that are purpose built for design, media editing and other professional needs; and industrial computing tools such as servers, networking systems and storage arrays.
Dhaksha Unmanned Systems is a drone technology company that engineers and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles. Its three divisions focus on agriculture, defense and enterprise applications, with distinct hardware features and capacities emphasized in each department. Its DH-Agrigator-E10 product is an innovative agri-drone that can carry a payload of up to 10 liters of liquid, allowing it to spray up to two acres before requiring recharging.
The technology company Impiger Technologies focuses on building and implementing software products for enterprise IT systems. It works across areas of emerging tech, including cloud computing, Internet of Things, AI, robotic process automations and mixed reality. To build software symbiotically with the hardware products that deliver them, the company has partnered with IBM as a strategic build partner since 2022.
Lenovo is a provider of technology products and computer hardware. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of personal computers, and additionally offers hardware lines of smart phones, workstations, tablets, wearables and servers. Beyond these consumer products, the company also produces many of the hardware components that go into its product lines, such as central processing units and hard drives.
e-con Systems is an optics technology company that makes OEM hardware components for cameras. These parts are used in over 350 cameras made by numerous brands, which rely on e-con Systems for consistent quality. Such cameras are designed for a wide range of applications, from computer vision to medical imaging and surveillance.
