We all know or heard Intel, Qualcomm (Snapdragon Processors), AMD, ARM processors. We use them in our daily life. The all are from foreign countries. Now India started Manufacturing own micro-processor Called Shakti. The Shakti project was founded in 2014 as an R&D project aimed at building Power ISA chips. The project then shifted to RISC-V.
The SHAKTI project is building a family of 6 processors, based on the RISC-V ISA (RISC-V: The Free and Open RISC Instruction Set Architecture). RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture. Intel and ARM uses there own architecture x86 and ARM respectively.
Shakti currently have three Base core variants as the E class, C class, I Class and Three Multi-core Variants as the M class, S class, H Class.
C class Processor fabricated by Intel based on 22nm technology named RISECREEK, and another varient is fabricated In India by SCL(Semiconductor Laboratory- Department of space, Government of India) based on 180nm called RIMO.
What Makes Shakti different from all other processor Intel, ARM never share there architecture but Shakti uses Open-Source architecture so this makes processor development as per the user need. Shakti Uses Harvard architecture (Uses different bus for Address and Data). whereas most of the processors uses Von- Neumann architecture (Uses Same bus for Address and Data). this gives performance boost to the Shakti processor.
The Shakti project booted Linux on its first RISC-V processor. The 22nm FinFET fabricated, 400MHz Shakti chip can run at 1.67 DMIPS/MHz, and will be commercialized by a startup called InCore.
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