As added by top corporate executive, Tenstorrent, a firm that creates computers for artificial intelligence, is hoping to collaborate with Indian entrepreneurs to develop open source RISC-V based microprocessors. James Keller, CEO of Tenstorrent, is anticipating genuine India projects from the nation's startups, such as the construction of an entire data centre employing RISC V services created by local businesses.
"Tenstorrent as a company is going to invest in some (startups). We are not an investment company but we have a very keen interest. Let's say there has been progress with some because we're going to collaborate where we plan to share some technology," he said.
The AMD K7 CPU, the first computer chipset to achieve 1 gigahertz processing speed, the AMD K8 processors, the Apple A4 and A5 chipsets, and later his job as the head of the main design team at AMD are among Keller's most well-known accomplishments.
The original iPad was powered by an Apple A4 processor.
Over the years, Keller claimed to have worked with Indian engineers and realised that occasionally they are "unwarrantedly hopeful."
Keller responded that the chip industry is cyclical in nature and that it takes a few decades to create the industry when asked about his thoughts on India's semiconductor mission at a time when there is an excess supply of chipsets on the market.
"If India wants to have local production they have to invest today, it is as good as any day.
"There's a lot of space to participate in cyclical businesses. When they go down, everybody pulls back their investment till there's a shortage and then everybody puts the investment in when the dollar is surplus. You just have to have a very long-term finance plan," Keller said.
As per him, the semiconductor industry's upturn has always been more pronounced than the preceding cycle's amplitude.
"If you make good decisions, and you want localisation and you want local companies to build stuff, you can have a really good outcome. I have had good success and I have enjoyed working with India teams for years. I am an optimist. The things that are going to happen in the next 10 years are incredible. It's a really big opportunity," Keller said.
Based on him, Indians are seriously considering the potential in the semiconductor industry.
The government approved the Semicon India programme with a total investment of Rs. 76,000 crore to develop the nation's ecosystem for the manufacture of semiconductors and displays, but it was later modified to offer fiscal support equal to 50% of the project cost on a pari-passu basis for the establishment of semiconductor and display fabrication facilities.
The Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) programme was initiated by the Ministry of Electronics and IT with the goal of accelerating local development of electronic circuits and launching the first indigenous chipset by 2023–2024.
"I was quite interested when the Indian government announced that they wanted to support RISC-V at the national level. It's really interesting because that creates a platform for innovation and a whole bunch of different levels," Keller said.
He claimed that Tenstorrent design centres in Bangalore will collaborate with a few Indian businesses to produce "interesting PCs" that were essentially created in India.
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