India is currently in the middle of an electronics boom that's steadily picking up pace. In the future, we're going to need to make our own processors, in order to offset production costs. And IIT Bombay may have just started us on that path to self-sufficiency. IMAGE COURTESY: PRABOT/REDDIT The Institute has just debuted the country's first indigenously-produced microprocessor for SPARC ISA architecture. AJIT as they call it (no, that acronym doesn't stand for anything) was entirely conceptualised, designed, developed, and manufactured right here in India. To be clear, India recently had its first indigenously-developed open-source processor in the form of Shakti . That was instead based on RISC-V architecture, and it was developed in collaboration with semiconductor tool design company Bluespec. The other main difference between the two is that Shakti is smaller and geared towards smartphones and IoT devices. Ajit instead is aimed at larger systems...
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