RT-Engels: 05-02-2025,
New Delhi has embarked on a mission to develop its own artificial intelligence ecosystem in order to reduce reliance on Western tech giants
India has taken a key first step towards developing its own artificial intelligence chip from scratch, the newspaper Mint reported on Wednesday, citing officials. The initiative is aimed at lessening New Delhi’s dependence on Western tech giants, whose powerful processors have dominated the country’s AI landscape.
The country’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) has partnered with state-owned IT and advanced computing centers, including the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), to design the chip from the ground up. The chip will leverage C-DAC’s expertise in building processors based on open-source ‘Risc-V’ core architecture that will have a set of openly accessible standards that can be used by others – akin to the Android architecture used by many smartphone makers.
The US has long been at the forefront of AI technology. Chips made by the company Nvidia power the AI behind popular tools such as ChatGPT. However, India is now looking to change this by developing its own AI chip, with work on the framework already underway, according to government officials quoted by the publication. They added that New Delhi has set a tentative timeline of 2027 for the production of these chips in India. Experts from Big Tech firms in the US and executives from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Committee (TSMC) are also reportedly consulting with Meity to help develop the chip.