IIT Madras releases software development kit for India's first processor called ‘Shakti’
5 years, 8 months ago

IIT Madras releases software development kit for India's first processor called ‘Shakti’

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The Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had earlier revealed India’s first home-made processor called as Shakti. IIT Madras’ RISE group has been responsible for the development Shakti and they have said that they plan on releasing six classes of the processor in the market. The I-class is a 64-bit processor with multi-thread support and clock speeds ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 GHz. S-class variant of Shakti are aimed at server-type workloads and it happens to be an enhanced version of the I-class processor with the same multi-thread support.

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IIT Madras develops indigenous Shakti semiconductor chip for ISRO

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