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In Bengaluru, Google has hired at least 16 engineering veterans and four talent recruiters for its “gChips” team. The hiring is part of Google’s plans to design the guts of its devices internally. BENGALURU: Internet giant Google has hired more than a dozen microchip engineers in Bengaluru in recent months and plans to rapidly add more, according to LinkedIn profiles, job postings and two industry executives. Google declined to comment on the hires.Rajat Bhargava describes himself on LinkedIn as Google’s “silicon site lead” in Bengaluru, saying he joined last May after a decade at Broadcom and a year at Intel. Google had 13 job postings for roles related to chips in Bengaluru, according to a recent check of the company’s careers website.In a bid to cut costs and reduce reliance on vendors, Amazon, Microsoft Corp, Apple and Facebook each have launched their own chip-design efforts..