Context: The designs are based on RISC-V ISA (https://riscv.org). When India looks east, it sees Huawei, a Chinese tech giant, being cut off from American-made components as a result of the trade war. To the west, it sees its most talented engineers working in Silicon Valley. By pouring millions of dollars into Indian-made semiconductors, India’s government hopes to solve both problems at once.
The open source academic project mentioned in the article is 'Project Shakti' at IIT Madras.
Best of luck to India. I sincerely hope that RISC-V will grant them the ability to produce commodity grade (even if low end) chips that can be utilized with open source software system. The first such use may well be industrial systems where OS and spec are not the major concern.
The open source academic project mentioned in the article is 'Project Shakti' at IIT Madras.
Link: https://shakti.org.in/