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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...

World Book and Copyright Day   is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, on 23 April, celebrations take place all over the world to recognize the scope of books - a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures. On this occasion, UNESCO and the international organizations representing the three major sectors of the book industry - publishers, booksellers and libraries, select the  World Book Capital  for a year to maintain, through its own initiatives, the impetus of the Day’s celebrations.  23 April is a symbolic date in world literature. It is the date on which several prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. This date was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone to access books. By championing books a...