“This collaboration is intended to spur and support the growth of India’s developer community, with a focus on processor design, system design, firmware, and application development, including contributions to open source initiatives,” IBM said in a statement.
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Through the HPC working group, the two plan to address areas like skilling, competency, and ecosystem building in HPC design research across the full technology stack for processor development, it added.
Guidance to startups, support for codevelopment and innovation, and capacity building workshops will be part of the efforts.
The partners will also promote IBM’s Power processor among startups, MSMEs and research and academic organisations for HPC applications. The working group will identify partners for designing and developing competitive indigenous processors based on the IBM Power architecture which can run data-intensive and mission critical workloads, the statement said.
Minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship and electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, “We believe that the future is not only about manufacturing semiconductors but about designing chips and IPs for all industries. We are doubling down on a strategy that includes RISC V and IBM’s Power—these two families will be the Indian families of semiconductors around which we will build multiple applications—microprocessors, IoT among others.”
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He added that semiconductors are changing how all industries operate and reimagining how conventional architecture is being designed and used, and that India is working to become a semiconductor hub of the world.Sandip Patel, managing director, IBM India and South Asia said, “As we accelerate the adoption of technologies like AI, the demand for HPC will grow significantly as most HPC systems are created with these workloads in mind. This presents a great opportunity for our country to be among the leaders in this space – provided there are sufficient resources and skills available to scale the industry.”
The collaboration aims to create a conducive environment, he added, and is a next step in the company’s continued commitment to enhance India’s digital transformation and economic growth through such technologies.
