The researchers from IIT Madras have designed India’s first indigenous microprocessor called ‘Shakti’.
It is aimed at
Developing industrial-grade microprocessors and other components of the microprocessor ecosystem.
Reducing dependency on imported microchips and risk of cyber-attacks.
It has been developed under project partly funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
Its design originates from open source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), a set of basic instructions called RISC-V (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), which makes it customisable to any device.
IIT-Madras researchers are now conducting research on ‘Parashakti’, an advanced microprocessor for supercomputers.