The government has set a deadline to commercially launch the first indigenous chipset by 2023-24 under the Digital India RISC-V programme. Gave.
Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajiv Chandrashekhar gave this information on Wednesday.
He said that the Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) program aims to create future generations of microprocessors. These microprocessors will meet India’s strategic needs in transportation, computing and digitization.
“One of the major milestones that I am very much focused on is to make available the first set of commercial silicon of Shakti and Vega processors by December 2023 or early 2024,” Chandrasekhar told reporters.
He added, “We want at least some companies to adopt their product designs for DIR-V products – Shakti and Vega – before 2023-24, and when the silicon is ready, they will be able to incorporate the chip into manufacturing and products.” Start putting it up.”
IIT Madras and Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) have developed two microprocessors named Shakti (32 bit) and Vega (64 bit) respectively using open source architecture under the Microprocessor Development Program of the Ministry of Electronics and IT.
The government has appointed Professor V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, as the chief architecture of the DIR-V program and Krishnakumar Rao, a scientist at CDAC Trivandrum, as the program manager.
(Source: PTI)
