Communications of the ACM
Ward Off Espionage: India to Design a Home-Grown Microprocessor
Top scientists at some of India's ace scientific institutions are pooling energies, and the government some money, in an ambitious attempt to design a home-grown microprocessor, which they hope will ward off the rising threat of espionage into strategic segments like defense, telecom and space.
The project to make the India Microprocessor, as it is being tentatively called, will see scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and IIT Delhi coming together under the aegis of the department of IT.
With an initial investment of $200 million, the current plan outlined in a government document has national security as the first priority. "Unless India has its own microprocessor, we can never ensure that networks (that require microprocessors) such as telecom, Army WAN, and microprocessors used in BARC, ISRO, in aircraft such as Tejas, battle tanks and radars are not compromised," the document points out.
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