The government, on April 27, announced the launch of the Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) initiative to ramp up the production of microprocessors by December 2023. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, mentioned that DIR-V would see partnerships between startups, academia, and multinational corporations.

Chandrasekhar recalled his early days at Intel as a chip designer for the x-86 processor. He noted that many new processor architectures have gone through an initial phase characterised by a wave of innovation. At some point, they all opted for a dominant design.

“ARM and x-86 are just two instruction set architectures – one licensed and the other sold, and the industry has consolidated over the past few decades. However, over the past decade, RISC- V has become a strong alternative for them, with no licensing burden, enabling it to be used by everyone in the semiconductor industry for various design purposes with varying degrees of sophistication,” said.

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The Department of Electronics and IT is planning to join RISC-V International as a keyboard member to collaborate, contribute and promote Indian expertise with other global RISC-V leaders.