Arasan Chip Systems

Arasan Chip Systems is based in Tuticorin, down at 10/A Masilamanipuram on 2nd Street. This part of Tamil Nadu gets incredibly hot, so we spend a lot of our time trying to keep the equipment cool. The building is a standard one for this street, and we share the neighborhood with all sorts of small shops and houses. Inside, it’s mostly just rows of desks with monitors and cables running all over the place. It’s a tech-focused environment, but it doesn’t look like those fancy offices you see on TV. We have regular desks, some old chairs, and a small area where we keep the water cooler and some snacks. The zip code 628008 covers a fair bit of area, but our little corner on 2nd Street is where we spend our eight or nine hours a day. You can hear the sounds of the street outside—the motorbikes and the occasional street vendor calling out. We don’t have a lot of walk-in traffic, as most of our work is done sitting behind the screens. The lighting is a bit bright, but it helps when you’re looking at small details all day. We’ve been at this location for a while, so the walls have some scuffs and the floor is worn down in the spots where we walk the most. It’s just a normal place where we work. We keep the window curtains drawn most of the time to keep the glare off the computers.