IIT MADRAS RELEASES SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT

The Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had earlier revealed India's first home-made processor called as Shakti. The chipset has been in the works for since 2016 and now Indian Institute of Technology Madras has released an SDK (software development kit) for the processor.

India Startup Preps RISC-V, AI Cores

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A startup in India announced ambitious plans to design and license RISC-V-based processor cores as well as deep-learning accelerators and SoC design tools. InCore Semiconductors will make its first cores available before the end of the year.

Shakti – India’s First Ever RISC-V Based Processor

The Shakti project is based on the RISC-V based silicon processor . Shakti achieved the success to booting the Linux in first ever RISC-V based chip processor.An ARM killer From IIT,Madras,INDIA.

Linux boots on new “Shakti” RISC-V chip

The Shakti project, based at IIT Madras, has booted Linux on its first RISC-V processor. The 22nm FinFET fabricated, 400MHz Shakti chip can run at 1.67 DMIPS/MHz, and will be commercialized by a startup called InCore.

An ARM killer from IIT, Madras? Meet the brains behind India’s ambitious processor project

Stepping into the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras environs feels like you are in a walled jungle. The landscape is full of thick trees that have set down roots for decades. Bats, deers, and monkeys, seemingly comfortable with the few thousand bicycle-riding students, academics, and staff on campus, are easy to spot.

India Preps RISC-V Processors

Separately a team of about 30 designers at IIT Madras has been working for more than two years on a family of 32- and 64-bit open source processors based on RISC-V. The work started about five years ago under the name Shakti which means power because the chips originally used IBM Power cores.