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Noise’s Luna Ring wins 2024 Red Dot Design Award
Mumbai: Noise, a connected lifestyle tech brand, has been honoured with the prestigious Red Dot Award in the category of Product Design for its flagship wearable Luna Ring wearable device. This globally-renowned award recognizes Noise’s excellence in design quality and innovation.
Launched last year as the segment’s first smart ring, the Luna Ring represents Noise’s dedication to design-driven innovation in wearable technology. Conceptualized and crafted in-house, this compact and comfortable device blends advanced health monitoring capabilities with a stylish, discreet form factor.
The Luna Ring elegantly houses research-grade PPG, motion, and body temperature sensors within its durable titanium casing – a feat of miniaturization that marries cutting-edge biometrics with premium materials. Beyond its sleek aesthetics, this smart ring tracks over 70 biometric signals, providing valuable insights into sleep quality, activity levels, and overall well-being. The product’s design focuses on elevating both functionality and wearability for a seamless user experience.
The Luna Ring represents the perfect symbiosis of Noise’s innovative spirit and design prowess. Packed with advanced sensors and intuitive user interfaces, it allows users to conveniently track their health, fitness, and daily metrics while making a bold statement with its sleek, minimalist aesthetics.
Established in 1955, the Red Dot is an internationally respected mark of excellence that has become a coveted seal for exceptional design works across product, communication, and concept categories. By securing this distinction in the Product Design segment, Noise has cemented its position among the global vanguards of design leadership. For 2024, an international jury meticulously evaluated thousands of product designs from companies across the globe before bestowing the ‘Red Dot’ distinction upon Noise’s Luna Ring – a seal reserved only for products featuring truly outstanding designs.
“Design thinking has been the guiding force behind our product vision at Noise,” said Amit Khatri, co-founder at Noise. “We blend cutting-edge features according to user needs while packaging them in an exquisite design language. Being named a Red Dot winner for the Luna Ring validates our brand’s relentless commitment to this design philosophy. This prestigious award recognizes our ability to develop connected wearables that not only offer superior functionality but also elevate the user experience through an exceptional design crafted around their needs and preferences.
As a Red Dot laureate for 2024, Noise’s Luna Ring will be featured in the Red Dot Design Yearbook, online exhibitions, and museums. The company is also invited to celebrate this milestone at the Red Dot Award Ceremony and Designers’ Night in June 2024.
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Tessolve lands a semiconductor veteran to drive its next big push
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, who started his career at ISRO and has spent 35 years building chips and companies, joins the Bengaluru-based firm as president and chief operating officer
BENGALURU: Tessolve has never been shy about its ambitions. The Bengaluru-based engineering services firm already counts 18 of the world’s top 20 semiconductor companies among its clients, employs more than 3,500 engineers across 12 countries, and last year pocketed a $150m investment from TPG. Now it has hired the executive it believes can turn those assets into something bigger. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, a 35-year semiconductor veteran who once built satellite payloads for ISRO and has since scaled engineering organisations across three continents, joins as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.
THE MAN AND THE MANDATE
The appointment is, by any measure, a serious hire. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu comes to Tessolve after senior leadership stints at HCL Technologies, Altran and Wipro, where he managed large profit-and-loss portfolios and oversaw cross-regional teams. Over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in bringing more than 1,000 new products to market across the high-tech, energy and manufacturing verticals. Before the private sector claimed him, he began his working life as a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation, contributing to research and development in charge-coupled device technology and satellite payloads, a foundation that shaped everything that followed.
In his new role, he will lead Tessolve’s global growth strategy: expanding its engineering capabilities, deepening customer relationships and accelerating innovation across semiconductor and high-performance computing domains. The brief is broad, but the context is specific. Tessolve operates in the $550 billion global semiconductor market, and its recent moves, the acquisition of Germany’s Dream Chip Technologies and the TPG funding round, have sharpened both its reach and its expectations.
Srini Chinamilli, co-founder and chief executive of Tessolve, is characteristically direct about why Ravi Kumar Chirugudu was the choice:
“As we scale our global semiconductor and system engineering capabilities, Ravi’s appointment marks an important step forward. As global semiconductor demand continues to accelerate across industries, it is creating significant opportunities across the semiconductor lifecycle, from design, packaging, validation and systems integration. Ravi’s deep knowledge and leadership in this ecosystem brings the right mix of industry expertise, customer connect and execution capability, which will play a key role in strengthening our position as a trusted global engineering partner and reinforcing our market leadership.”
THE NEW ARRIVAL SPEAKS
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, for his part, frames the move in terms of timing and culture, two factors that veteran executives tend to weigh as heavily as title or compensation:
“I am happy to join Tessolve at a time when the industry is rapidly evolving towards more complex, AI-driven systems. What stands out to me is its strong people-first culture and its commitment to bringing value to its customers. The strength of its global team, combined with its deep expertise in semiconductor innovation and next-generation product engineering, creates a solid foundation to build differentiated, scalable solutions. I look forward to working closely with the team to drive strategic growth and strengthen its role in shaping the global semiconductor ecosystem.”
The reference to AI-driven systems is not incidental. The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a structural reshaping, driven by the insatiable compute demands of artificial intelligence. For engineering services firms like Tessolve, which offers end-to-end capabilities from silicon design to packaged parts and invests in high-performance computing, high-speed interfaces, photonics and 5G, the moment is both an opportunity and a test. The company says it is well positioned to capture the next wave of industry growth. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu is now the person who has to prove it.
He came in from outer space, literally, and spent three decades learning how the semiconductor industry works from the inside out. Now Tessolve is betting that accumulated knowledge can help it cross the next frontier. In the $550 billion global chip market, the gap between ambition and execution is measured in engineering hours and leadership quality. Tessolve has just gone shopping for both.
