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It's based on spark V8 which means it's only 32 bit. The blokes who built it say that it can used in servers. Why would some want to use a 100Mhz 32-bit chip on
by me551ah 8y ago
It's based on spark V8 which means it's only 32 bit. The blokes who built it say that it can used in servers. Why would some want to use a 100Mhz 32-bit chip on servers !
They say that the price would be around 100rs. At slightly less than that you can get the Allwinner A13 CPU, which is 1Ghz Cortex A8 ARM with a built in Mali GPU. Why anyone would want to use this in a commercial setting is beyond me.
But it's a brilliant achievement on India's part, to make their first indigeniously developed processor.
- geezerjay 8y agoThe article makes it quite clear that the project is aimed at jump-starting India's industry. To achieve their goal, their first step was a relatively low-complexity project conducted by an inexperienced team. Although their PR effort is outlandish, I'm pretty sure they are aware of the limits of this sort of project.
- tyingq 8y agoThe driver seems to be this: "We are planning to use AJIT in the receivers being developed for NAVIC or IRNNS (The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System), an indigenous navigation system for the Indian subcontinent," said one of the processor's designers in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything). Article: https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/meet-ajit-1st-entirely-made-in-india-chip-by-iit-bombay-and-it-will-power-our-satellites-365874.html https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/meet-ajit-1st-ent... Reddit AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/bfrh0g/indias_first_indigenous_processor_developed_at/ https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/bfrh0g/indias_first_...
- bogomipz 8y agoDo you have another resource that mentions it being Sparc V8 based? I didn't see that in this article. Also doesn't Oracle own the Sparc ISA would they have to license this? Any insight into why they wouldn't have done with RISC-V instead of Sparc?