The Minister, who himself is a former chip designer appreciated the initiative by chips designer Jim Keller to unveil his startup’s office in Bangalore
An emerging startup in the field of next-generation computing, Tenstorrent organised a RISC-V Technology Conference ‘Nerds Talking To Nerds’ in Bangalore recently. Present during the event, Union Minister of State for Electronics & IT, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar remarked that Indian startups using RISC-V have tremendous opportunities for developing products, devices and AI solutions with global companies like Tenstorrent evincing interest for collaborations. Sh Chandrasekhar, who himself is a former chip designer appreciated the initiative by chips designer Jim Keller to unveil his startup’s office in Bangalore.
The government believes that the RISC-V—an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA)—is being increasingly used for innovations, particularly when it comes to emerging and rapidly developing AI solutions. “RISC-V is becoming a global movement with India as a leading player,” the Minister said while addressing the conference.
It is noteworthy that the leading startup set up its office in India one year after the launch of the Semicon India Conference by PM Modi.
Welcoming the move to set up Tenstorrent’s office in India, the minister said, “I am happy that within a year of the launch of the 1st Semicon India Conference by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, global semicon leaders like Jim Keller are moving to India and catalysing future design startups in the country. The time and place for RISC-V are India and Bengaluru is the capital of RISC-V innovation.”
PIB quoted the minister saying, “We are living in extremely interesting times for technology space and in the next five years, centres of gravity will be rebuilt around newer geopolitics and newer talent pools. Young Indians are going to shape the future of Semicon design and build and create new products, new devices and new solutions.”
Canada-headquartered Tenstorrent identifies as a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. The company has offices in Austin, Texas, Silicon Valley, Belgrade, Tokyo, and Bangalore. Tenstorrent claims to bring together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.
