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Saankhya Labs is a privately held fabless semiconductor company venture funded by Intel Capital. The company is on a mission to create a niche for itself in the Global TV Industry.

Saankhya Labs is co-founded and led by industry veterans with extensive experience in TV and semiconductor industry. Backed by good techno-marketing experience in MNC as well as start-up environment, the team is highly motivated and result oriented. With multiple patents to its credit, the team has developed an award winning technology based on Software Defined Radio architecture.

Saankhya brings to market the Industry’s First Universal TV Demodulator IC for Digital and Analog TV reception enabling large Consumer Electronic OEM/ODM’s to design Universal TV Chassis.

The transition from Analog to Digital transmission of TV signals is becoming a reality in most countries across the world. This is leading to proliferation of DTV receivers. Viewers today receive DTV content through Digital TVs (DTV), Set-top-boxes, PC-TV tuners and Cell phones. DTV signals are transmitted over Terrestrial, Cable and Satellite media.

DTV broadcast standards are region-specific. In North America/Korea terrestrial DTV is based on ATSC, Europe/India/many parts of Asia use DVB-T, Japan/ Brazil use ISDB-T and China uses CDMB-T. Similar diversity exists in Mobile TV, Cable and Satellite standards as well. Most DTV/PC-TV/Mobile-TV manufacturers today cater to the world market through region-specific products. This leads to additional design, manufacturing and inventory costs due to separate product lines for each region. DTV sets in each region have to support terrestrial, cable and sometime satellite reception. Analog TV transmission will continue to exist in many parts of the world requiring demodulation support. This requires two or three demodulator chips on the DTV chassis, leading to high cost. The scarcity of spectrum is driving the proliferation of more TV standards. Saankhya’s solutions solve this problem in a unique way. Our solution decreases the cost of a regional TV set as well as the cost of manufacturing a world TV receiver.