TNPSC Thervupettagam

India’s first indigenous microprocessor

November 10 , 2018 2207 days 1001 0
  • 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.

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