Hyderabad startup develops processor that is high on computation and low on power consumption.

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Hyderabad: Whether it is India’s Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) called NavIC or ISRO’s radar signal processing or our mobile phones, the common thread for all this is the processor that runs these systems. And India for a long time has been importing the chip to develop this processor, but one Hyderabad-based startup is planning to indigenously develop the processor for different sectors and technologies. The semiconductor startup Manjeera

Digital Systems has developed a product called Universal Multifunction Accelerator that aims to increase the performance as well as the battery life. “We want to promote indigenously developed processors and chips and our product is the correct composition of all four factors that processors need. The UMA will have high computation and programmability factor and low power consumption and smaller chip area. In addition, it can also be used in all areas like automotive industry, surveillance, defence and aerospace, industrial automation and also in smartphones,” Dr Venu Kandadi, co-founder and CEO, Manjeera Digital Systems told Telangana Today. The processor is six times more powerful in performance and the battery life is 10 times longer in comparison to the existing ones.

The five-year-old company is currently incubated in the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), IIIT-Hyderabad. With customers ranging from ISRO to Intel and recognised by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) as a startup under the Startup India Programme, Manjeera is also supported serial entrepreneur Srini Chandupatla, who is also the co-founder and has invested in the startup. According to Dr Kandadi, the semiconductor startup is looking to raise funds to the tune of Rs 20 crore as it plans to develop a generic chip which can work in all the sectors and fields and will be more cost effective than the ones that India currently imports.

“We are looking forward for some kind of help from Central government programmes and also State funding programmes like Electronics Development Fund and T-Fund respectively,” Dr Kandadi said.