{"id":1029134,"date":"2026-08-17T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029134"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:11:33","slug":"dli-backed-aheesa-digital-achieves-first-pass-silicon-success-with-broadband-chip-vihaan-meity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/dli-backed-aheesa-digital-achieves-first-pass-silicon-success-with-broadband-chip-vihaan-meity\/","title":{"rendered":"DLI-backed Aheesa Digital achieves first-pass silicon success with broadband chip VIHAAN: MeitY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme-backed Indian semiconductor startup has achieved first-pass silicon success with &#8216;VIHAAN&#8217;, an indigenous broadband networking System-on-Chip (SoC) built using the VEGA microprocessor, marking a key step towards taking the chip into production, the Ministry of Electronics and IT said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Chennai-based Aheesa Digital Innovations, a fabless semiconductor startup, taped out VIHAAN on Republic Day and achieved first-pass silicon success on Independence Day this year. The chip, designed for fibre broadband applications, will now proceed towards production tape-out, targeted for 2027, the ministry said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme-backed Indian semiconductor startup has achieved first-pass silicon success with &#8216;VIHAAN&#8217;, an indigenous broadband networking System-on-Chip (SoC) built using the VEGA microprocessor, marking a key step towards taking the chip into production, the Ministry of Electronics and IT said on Saturday. Chennai-based Aheesa Digital Innovations, a fabless semiconductor startup, taped out VIHAAN on Republic Day and achieved first-pass silicon success on Independence Day this year. The chip, designed for fibre broadband applications, will now proceed towards production tape-out, targeted for 2027, the ministry said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029156,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029134\/revisions\/1029156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}