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Indigenous Shakti Semiconductor Chip

Context:

Just lately, IIT Madras, in collaboration with ISRO, has developed an Indigenous Shakti Semiconductor Chip underneath the Digital India RISC-V initiative (DIRV) of the Ministry of Electronics and Data Expertise (MeitY).

• The chip enhances India’s self-reliance in semiconductor know-how.

Relevance:
GS-03 (Science and know-how)

Key highlights of the Indigenous Shakti Semiconductor Chip:

• The chip is constructed on the Shakti processor baseline, which is optimised for house and aerospace functions.
• Though it’s primarily constructed for serving to in IoT, computing methods, and defence sectors, it even addresses each business and strategic wants.
• The initiative aligns with ISRO’s imaginative and prescient for semiconductor self-reliance in house know-how and likewise goals to switch overseas chips in India’s house missions.

What are semiconductor chips?

• Semiconductors are supplies which have each the properties of conductors and insulators. They’re often present in digital merchandise reminiscent of computer systems, good telephones, and so forth.
• They are often pure components like silicon or compounds like gallium arsenide and kind the fundamental constructing blocks of recent electronics and knowledge know-how merchandise.
• In addition they play an integral part within the vehicle trade, family devices, and medical gadgets.