He spent a decade at Texas Instruments helping make it the world's number one vendor of DSL modem chips.
Then he quit, put in his own savings, and started a semiconductor company in a garage with one other person. It took eight years before India saw what he had built.
His name is Himamshu Khasnis.
What pushed him out was a number he could not stop thinking about. By his own estimate, close to 45 percent of the world's chips were being designed in Bengaluru. But as he put it, "the intellectual property and the subsequent revenue remained with the USA."
India had more than a billion mobile phones, second only to China, and some of the largest cellular networks on earth. Every silicon chip inside that infrastructure was imported.
He founded Signalchip in 2010.
Chip design is slow, brutally expensive, and offers nothing to show for years. Sridhar Vembu of Zoho, who had started his own career as a wireless engineer at Qualcomm, backed him and stayed. A software founder funding silicon, through a decade with no product.
In 2015 came SCRF1401, India's first RF transceiver chip for 3G, 4G and WiFi.
Then in February 2019, Signalchip unveiled four chips it called the Agumbe family, India's first indigenous semiconductor chips for 4G LTE and 5G NR modems. They cover all LTE and 5G bands up to 6GHz, and they support positioning through NavIC, India's own satellite navigation system.
At the launch, India's Telecom Secretary noted that only around eight companies in the world could design and build chips like these. The team that did it was 40 people.
In October 2024, Khasnis stood at the India Mobile Congress explaining his chips to the Prime Minister, who asked detailed questions.
For years, Indian engineers designed a large share of the world's silicon and owned almost none of it.
Agumbe is Indian at the level that actually matters. The design, the patents, the ownership.
@signalchip
These Young Boys from Sagar, MP are doing the work which is supposed to be done by the Government 🥺
I propose that a small portion of our Tax goes to such Individuals who are actually doing the job themselves.
Let's make these boys Viral !!
#FI
ये दोनों बच्चियां पिछले 7 दिनों से लापता है।
स्थान: प्रयागराज, उत्तर प्रदेश
थाना: सराय ममरेज
पोस्ट: जंघई बाजार
नाम: निधि पाण्डेय, उम्र 13 वर्ष
नाम: अनन्या पाण्डेय, उम्र 9 वर्ष
कृपया इस पोस्ट को ज्यादा से ज्यादा शेयर करें, ताकि बच्चियों की जानकारी अधिक से अधिक लोगों तक पहुंच सके और उन्हें जल्द खोजने में मदद मिल सके।
आपका एक शेयर इन बच्चियों को खोजने में मददगार हो सकता है। यदि किसी को इसके बारे में कोई जानकारी मिले, तो कृपया तुरंत स्थानीय पुलिस को सूचित करें।
जिस तरह IIT Bombay मामले में जनता की आवाज़ उठी, उसी तरह Ajeet Bharti के लिए भी जनता की आवाज़ उठनी चाहिए। न्याय में भेदभाव नहीं—एक ही कानून, एक ही कसौटी!
RT if you are supporting Ajeet Bharti
#StandWithAjeetBharti#JusticeForAjeet#RuleOfLaw
Indian diaspora is offering their home to Indian athletes participating in Nagoya in Japan due to the mismanagement there. If it was India, Al Jazeera, CNN, NNC, WaPo would have written about it, taken shots at India, posted racist remarks, a photo of slums.
सही कहा, हमारा अब कोई नेता नहीं...
कोई पार्टी नहीं...
हमारे मुद्दों पर सब मौन हैं।
जैसे 2 सीटों से भाजपा बनाई थी...
अब फिर से कुछ नया विकल्प बनाने का समय आ गया है।
अभी तो सिर्फ सवर्ण जागना शुरू हुआ है, जागा नहीं है पूरा...
प्रयास जारी रहेगा, तब तक जब तक पूरा सवर्ण समाज जाग नहीं जाता।
This will not get 1 Mn views coz the no. 1 is Delhi.
If I posted a video of a dirty slum or mountain of garbage with just the name India in my tweet it'll get viral.
Y'all need to stop Blackpilling so hard and share this with great enthusiasm.
जब दारा सिंह जी जेल में थे, तब उनके समर्थन में धरने पर बैठने वाले आज मुख्यमंत्री हैं। लेकिन मुख्यमंत्री बनने के बाद भी वे दारा सिंह जी को न्याय नहीं दिला पाए। सत्ता में आते ही भूमिका बदल गई, यही है किस्सा कुर्सी का।
“If this happened in India, oh my God, the media would be going crazy, not just in India, but globally. We would’ve been the butt of the joke.
- Asian Games Athlete & MMA fighter Varun Sanyal on if the same situation had arisen in India
BREAKING Ashok Mishra (Gymnastics coach) and Pranati Naik were allocated the same room in Nagoya.
The same happened with Kabaddi.
Had this been in India all hell would break out.
Finally because of IOA intervention things got resolved at 130am.
Even then Ashok Mishra couldn’t get his room for the “I” in his name was missing in the register and that took another 45 mins. This is becoming routine in Nagoya. @RevSportzGlobal
🚨Multiple instances have come to light highlighting accommodation-related issues in Nagoya, with even local athletes raising concerns. From long waiting times for rooms to instances of male and female athletes being assigned the same room, several issues have been reported.
Listen to @BoriaMajumdar as he brings you the details from Nagoya, and revisits the concerns raised in 2023 when Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara faced travel-related issues during the Odisha Masters in Cuttack and voiced her concerns.
#AsianGames2026 @OlamAgri_@AsianGames_2026
#SCSTएक्ट के जो झूठे मुकदमे पूरे देश में अलग-अलग जगह पे फाइल हो रहे हैं, अब आपको डरने की जरूरत नहीं आपकी हर प्रकार से हेल्प की जाएगी...
हेल्पलाइन नंबर - 8882002222
#SCST#ugc_rollback#ReservationReform
In 2023 Japanese shuttler Nozomi Okuhara did not get transport after reaching Cuttack on Monday for the Odisha Open. She waited four hours to check in and was not given a shuttle or car for her 8 am practice. She posted on social media. India was shamed and Japanese voices tore into the hosts. The actual issue was that the Japanese athlete side never sent an email with their logistics and that was the reason delay. India’s BAI still apologised and put it in writing that it would not happen again.
Now look at Japan. They are hosting the Asian Games and have messed up the whole setup. Not just Indian athelete but Many are facing the same mess. They should not have been given hosting rights if they did not have the capacity. They got them anyway. Athletes were left stranded in Nagoya for more than 12 hours with no rooms ready. Cruise ship cabins also took hours. The athletics team reached Tsukuba on Sunday and waited over four hours just to check in. Next morning the hotel said breakfast was never booked, so some players went without food. Some players were staying in their own tents, Malaysia athelete were sleeping in the airport, The team bus then failed to show up on time for training. Players are split across three hotels, more than four kilometres from the training venue and from meals. Sports nutrition and even regular fruit are already a problem. Still no proper communication. No updates. How interesting!!
जब तक UGC रोलबैक नहीं होता, भाजपा और कांग्रेस को वोट नहीं।
राजस्थान नगर निकाय चुनाव में यही मैसेज चला।
निर्दलीय 25-30% तक जीते। कई निगम-पालिकाओं में बिना निर्दलीय के बोर्ड ही नहीं बन रहा।
भरतपुर, पाली, जोधपुर, बीकानेर — नेताओं के गढ़ में भी वही हाल।
ये राजनीतिक पार्टी नहीं, स्वर्ण समाज का वोट है।
वोट की चोट अब समझ में आनी चाहिए।
UGC वापस लो। वरना अगला संदेश और बड़ा होगा।
मोकामा के कसहा दियारा की समुन्दरी देवी पिछले 10 वर्षों से वृद्धा पेंशन के लिए इंतजार कर रही हैं। पति की मौत के बाद सहारे के नाम पर सरकारी योजना ही थी, लेकिन वह भी आज तक नहीं मिली। उम्र के इस पड़ाव पर दादी माँ को दफ्तरों के चक्कर नहीं, सहारे की जरूरत है।
इस पोस्ट को ज्यादा से ज्यादा शेयर करें, ताकि समुन्दरी देवी की आवाज जिम्मेदार लोगों तक पहुँचे और उन्हें उनका हक मिल सके।