Case Study: Silicon Labs achieves rapid, cost-efficient on-premises scalable IT capacity with Dell Technologies APEX Flex on Demand

Global Semiconductor Company Scales IT to Match Growth Demands**

Silicon Labs, a fabless semiconductor company, faced recurring spikes in high‑performance computing demand during critical "tape‑out" windows that risked losing foundry slots and required costly overprovisioning. To avoid upfront CapEx, protect manufacturing investments, and preserve engineers’ existing workflows, Silicon Labs partnered with Dell Technologies and selected APEX Flex on Demand for elastic on‑premises compute.

Dell Technologies deployed APEX Flex on Demand with Dell PowerEdge servers (backed by Dell Financial Services, ProDeploy and ProSupport) to provide agreed base capacity plus burstable resources and hardware refresh cycles. The solution let Silicon Labs pay only for used capacity, absorb unplanned spikes—including five tape‑outs in one month—avoid delays and bottlenecks, simplify annual capacity planning, stay on budget, give engineers greater control over compute, and reduce e‑waste.

Silicon Labs

Jud Barron

R&D Infrastructure Architect