Sinclair Sees Its Pact With Saankhya Yielding ATSC 3.0 Chips ‘in Less Than a Year’
The agreement between Sinclair’s One Media 3.0 and chipmaker Saankhya Labs, announced Tuesday, to “fast-track” development of ATSC 3.0 receiver chipsets is expected to bear market-ready “mobile-first” components “in less than a year,” Mark Aitken, Sinclair vice president-advanced technology, told…
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us. The software-defined-radio chipsets Saankhya will design and build under the “technical leads” of Sinclair and One Media 3.0 will be “multi-standard” components,” Aitken said. “It’s not just a chip for ATSC 3.0.” It’s a chip that “quite literally” will support “all the broadcast standards globally,” due to “its nature as a software-defined chipset,” he said. “There are parts of the world where we see opportunities for ATSC 3.0 to flourish, and so the support of multiple standards is important.” The chipsets also will be designed out of the gate for “a mobile-first implementation,” Aitken said. “The chip is being designed based upon the requirements of handheld and portable devices that have very tight power management, space management kind of constraints.” By comparison, “the chips that Samsung and LG are in hot pursuit of are chips that were designed for television sets and set-top boxes, where there are not these kinds of constraints,” he said.