Rajeev Chandrasekar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, stated that the government is fully dedicated and prepared to support the sector in building cutting-edge competitive systems. In order to capitalize on its tremendous opportunity, India should concentrate on creating commercially viable, internationally competitive technology, he stated at a local event. In a virtual address at the Digital India RISC-V Symposium, he declared, "The government is fully committed to ensuring that the DIR-V (Digital India RISC-V) microprocessor is the Indian ISA (Instruction Set Architecture), and we are ready to support the industry in developing cutting-edge competitive systems."

 

The government of India launched the Digital India RISC-V Microprocessor program with the overarching goal of producing microprocessors for the future in India as part of its efforts to realize the goal of self-reliance under the "Atmanirbhar Bharat" campaign.

 

Fifth generation and "V" stand for "Reduced Instruction Set Computer," respectively. The RISC-V project started in 2010 with the goal of bringing new levels of hardware freedom on architecture and free extensible software (software that permits the addition of new functions and capabilities). Chandrasekhar noted that India was a technology consumer less than ten years ago.

 

"India was a large market that consumed technologies and innovations that were innovated outside of this country and we were on the edges of this core deep tech ecosystem of semiconductors, electronics and high performance systems," he said.