TNPSC Thervupettagam
August 7 , 2018 2301 days 1119 0
  • Computer scientists from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras have developed first of a family of six industry-standard microprocessors under Project Shakti.
  • The initial batch of 300 chips have been named RISECREEK and have been fabricated at Intel’s facility at Oregon, the US for free to run Linux operating system.
  • Project Shakti was started in 2014 as an IIT-M initiative and its part of the project was funded by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
  • Their design is open source and can be adapted by others.
  • At a frequency of 350 MHz, RISECREEK can meet the demands of defense and strategic equipment such as NAVIC (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite) and the Internet of Things (IoT) electronics.

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