Nvidia is reportedly planning to collaborate with India on a chip development to capitalise on India’s strong semiconductor design talent and the growing Indian market.
The proposal was made by Jensen Huang, chief executive officer and founder, Nvidia to India’s prime minister during a meeting in USA. Meanwhile, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Information and Broadcasting and Railways has also confirmed about the development.
Further, the company wants to use India’s chip designing base and develop an India specific chip. The co-developed chip could be customised for Indian use cases like Kavach, Indian Railways’ security system. Indian start-ups, companies, and government can use it to support various apps, if the government makes it available under the AI mission.
Furthermore, the core chip will be designed by Nvidia’s chip design partners such as Arm or AMD while top 10-20 per cent layer, which is being customised, can be designed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) or a private chip design company in India.
