Bengaluru-Based Saankhya Labs Unveils Electronic Chipset Which Helps in Facilitating 5G and Curb Call Drops

Bengaluru-based Saankhya Labs Thursday unveiled the first indigenously developed electronic chipset that can be used for functions like direct TV broadcast on mobile devices, curbing call drops and 5G connections. “Saankhya Labs, a Bengaluru-based company, is launching its indigenously designed and developed, the world’s first and most advanced multi-standard next-generation TV system on the chip,” Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said after unveiling the chipset. All electronic chipsets, considered as the heart of modern devices, have been developed by foreign companies so far. None of them is made in India because there is no modern semiconductor manufacturing plant in the country.

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Electronic chipsets of Saankhya Labs are also being manufactured at Samsung facility in South Korea. “I am also told that this broadband-broadcast convergence technology has great potential to minimise or eliminate call quality issues faced by telecom operators today,” Sinha said.

Saankhya Labs co-founder and CEO Parag Naik said the chipset would help in separating video content from a mobile network and hence reduce the load on the spectrum for improving call quality. Saankhya’s Pruthvi-3 chipset will facilitate direct transmission of video on mobile phones and can also help convert an Android-based smartphone into a satellite phone.

The company expects to launch its chipset-based mobile phone accessories in the form of a dongle and mobile phones within a couple of years, Naik said.

“Semiconductor technology takes time in maturing and adoption. Original design manufacturers will incorporate our chipsets into various products. We will try for getting certain standards based on our technology incorporated in 5G services. Our chipsets are 30% more efficient in output compared to our nearest competitor and 50% cheaper too,” he said.