India’s First Microprocessor Shakti May Soon Power Your Phones, Surveillance Cameras & Smart Meters

India’s first indigenous microprocessor may soon power your mobile phones, surveillance cameras and smart meters.

‘Shakti’, designed, developed and booted by Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and with a microchip fabricated in the Semi-Conductor Laboratory of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) at Chandigarh, will reduce dependency on imported microchips and the risk of cyber attacks making it ideal for communication and defence sectors.

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Prof Kamakoti Veezhinathan, the lead researcher at IITM’s RISE laboratory, said the design originated from an open source instruction set architecture, a set of basic instructions a processor understands, called RISC V, which makes it customizable to any device.Click Here: liverpool mens jersey