He was speaking at an event in the national capital where the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) partnered with Moschip Technologies and SocioNext Inc to design and develop an indigenous HPC chip.

The HPC processor is based on Arm architecture and built on TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) 5nm technology node.

“The announcement is a significant milestone in chip design. This demonstrates India's potential in indigenous development in the field of high performance computing. These ventures in consortia mode in partnership with industry are the need of the hour, said Dr Praveen Kumar S, Head of Scientific Divisions (HOD) in the Department of Science and Technology.

C-DAC is designing an indigenous HPC processor called AUM, where Keenheads Technologies, an Indian startup, has been appointed as the Program Management Consultant (PMC) for the project.

“Our indigenization efforts with server nodes, interconnects and system software stack have reached more than 50 percent. Now for complete indigenization, we are aiming to develop indigenous HPC processor AUM,” Krishnan said.