Ineda Systems, a hardware startup, has come up with a prototype product - MIPPs-based System-on-a-Chip (SoC) platform for wearable devices with "Dhanush” branding. The company calls the platform "Wearable Processing Unit” (WPU), on the lines of GPU and CPU. Ineda’s WPUs take input from sensors on an always-on basis. This means the chip takes data from devices (wearable) and uninterruptedly update applications for users. According to Ineda, the Dhanush WPUs consume 10 times lesser power as compared to rival devices.

Dhanush WPUs are based on Ineda's patent-pending hierarchical computing architecture that is claimed to deliver battery life for up to a month. Ineda's Dhanush range will include four classes of WPU—Nano, Micro, Optima, and Advanced. The WPU will go into production later this year.

"The Ineda engineering team in India has developed an innovative, low-power architecture designed specifically for wearable devices. The Dhanush family of WPUs offers better power consumption by an order of magnitude than smart phone processors that are currently being retrofitted for wearable devices," Ineda CEO Dasaradha Gude said in a statement.

Pricing of the Dhanush chips aren’t out yet, but the company assures low price points that will help boost wearable market. Ineda believes the wearable chips will be shoot to popularity the same way the smartphones and tablets did.  You can read more about Dhanush WPUs at the company's official website. The company has bagged $17 million in Series B funding from investors such as Samsung and Qualcomm. Ineda Systems has been founded by American and Indian semiconductor industry veterans, who have experience in companies such as Advanced Micro Devices, Imagination, and Globalfoundries. Outside the U.S., the company has offices in Hyderabad, India as well.