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.