Bengaluru-based Saankhya Labs on Thursday launched the first indigenously developed electronic chipset, which can be used for functions like direct TV broadcast on mobile devices and curbing call drops.

Named Pruthvi-3, it is the world’s first and most advanced multi-standard next generation system-on-chip (SoC), the company said.

Till now, all electronic chipsets, considered as the heart of the modern devices, have been developed by foreign companies such as Intel, AMD, Samsung, Qualcomm and MediaTek.

The previous government under the UPA had planned to launch an indigenously developed chipset by 2015, but the regime change derailed the programme.

Addresses call issues

Saankhya Labs said its chipsets are also being manufactured at Samsung facility in South Korea.

Pruthvi-3 is a fully programmable multi-standard chipset, which supports next generation broadcast standards.

“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,” Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said, after unveiling the chipset.

The company said it was looking at 50 per cent year-on-year growth in the business. It is expecting sales of around $15 million (₹ 98-105 crore) in this financial year, Parag Naik, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Saankhya Labs, said.

“We have advance orders for supplying 5 million chipsets to companies in the US, which they will use in tablets (PCs), television gateways, etc. This order will be executed by the first quarter of 2020,” Naik added.

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