{"id":1029138,"date":"2026-08-17T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029138"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:31:34","slug":"indias-semiconductor-push-rs-40-crore-fuelled-vihaan-chip-hits-first-pass-silicon-success-eyes-2027-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/indias-semiconductor-push-rs-40-crore-fuelled-vihaan-chip-hits-first-pass-silicon-success-eyes-2027-production\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s semiconductor push: Rs 40 crore-fuelled \u2018VIHAAN\u2019 chip hits first-pass silicon success, eyes 2027 production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A semiconductor startup hit a major milestone after successfully testing its own locally designed broadband internet chip. The first-pass silicon success of the VIHAAN chip means it worked correctly on the very first try, a key step toward mass production and greater self-reliance in semiconductors for India. This update came even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the country\u2019s push to build domestic chip-making capacity. <\/p>\n<p>A Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme-backed Indian semiconductor startup has achieved first-pass silicon success with \u2018VIHAAN\u2019, an indigenous broadband networking System-on-Chip (SoC) built using the VEGA microprocessor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A semiconductor startup hit a major milestone after successfully testing its own locally designed broadband internet chip. The first-pass silicon success of the VIHAAN chip means it worked correctly on the very first try, a key step toward mass production and greater self-reliance in semiconductors for India. This update came even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the country\u2019s push to build domestic chip-making capacity. A Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme-backed Indian semiconductor startup has achieved first-pass silicon success with \u2018VIHAAN\u2019, an indigenous broadband networking System-on-Chip (SoC) built using the VEGA microprocessor.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029138","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=1029138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029180,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029138\/revisions\/1029180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}