Saturday, August 17th 2024
India Targets 2026 for Its First Domestic AI Chip Development
Ola, an Indian automotive company, is venturing into AI chip development with its artificial intelligence branch, Krutrim, planning to launch India's first domestically designed AI chip by 2026. The company is leveraging ARM architecture for this initiative. CEO Bhavish Aggarwal emphasizes the importance of India developing its own AI technology rather than relying on external sources.
While detailed specifications are limited, Ola claims these chips will offer competitive performance and efficiency. For manufacturing, the company plans to partner with a global tier I or II foundry, possibly TSMC or Samsung. "We are still exploring foundries, we will go with a global tier I or II foundry. Taiwan is a global leader, and so is Korea. I visited Taiwan a couple of months back and the ecosystem is keen on partnering with India," Aggarwal said.Ola has announced several AI chips for various applications:
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While detailed specifications are limited, Ola claims these chips will offer competitive performance and efficiency. For manufacturing, the company plans to partner with a global tier I or II foundry, possibly TSMC or Samsung. "We are still exploring foundries, we will go with a global tier I or II foundry. Taiwan is a global leader, and so is Korea. I visited Taiwan a couple of months back and the ecosystem is keen on partnering with India," Aggarwal said.Ola has announced several AI chips for various applications:
- Bodhi-1: A mid-range chip for large language models and inferencing, set for 2026 release.
- Bodhi-2: A more advanced chip for high-end AI workloads, aimed at exa-scale computing, planned for 2028.
- Ojas: India's first edge AI chip, likely to be used in Ola's future electric vehicles.
- Sarv-1: A cloud-native CPU for cloud computing applications, potentially featuring ARM Neoverse N3 cores.
"Our goal is to push the boundaries of AI chip performance by 2028. This is a bold and ambitious project, but we are committed to delivering our first AI chip for India by 2026", CEO Bhavish Aggarwal stated.
21 Comments on India Targets 2026 for Its First Domestic AI Chip Development
Japan is still sleeping for the past 30 years. No more innovations on semiconductors, AI, display technologies, etc
No wonder if they are still using faxes, ISDN lines and floppy disks until July this year: :laugh: :laugh: :banghead:
www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx82407j1v3o
Also you can see Jensen pivoting to making ancillary chips and supporting hardware for the eventual humanoid robot takeover, which is kind of hilarious in itself. He knows where the next wave is going, too bad he's backing the wrong horse though he knows he can't get in with the big boy in this area.
I'm more curious; could you actually articulate which comments are bad, and why? Because ARM already has pre developed infrastructure. RISC V is the wild west, and you need a lot of experience to develop that. India doesnt have experience, so sticking to already present environments makes more sense.
Then there is a comment calling the image presented as being AI-generated, which is just complete bunk.
Then a comment calling it a scam, based on nothing but it being an Indian project, with a disclaimer that it "happens regardless of skin colour".
When else do we see these sorts of comments? When the talking point is about something Chinese. We never see this kind of shit when it's about something from the US, Japan or Europe. There is a pattern of negativity and hostility in TPU-comments towards projects not from the "West" that is incredibly idiotic and tiresome.
I believe the sentiment is not against India it's against the current state of AI which is a very big very empty bubble.
And the people looking to make a quick buck not by doing something constructive for the industry but by just fooling investors out of their money with outrageous promises like products by 2026.
Giant IT corporations have been dumping billions in AI for years and still have nothing to show for it and now some taxi company is going to make a domestic Indian AI chip in a bit over a year???
This isn't Modi announcing a new government initiative for IITB and IITM where they get extra funding to make it happen in a decade, it's a taxi service company.
it's the same as Dunkin doughnuts starting a space initiative claiming it will have manned flights to mars in 2026
Much of the reason that industry hasn't moved to India is that basic services are sparse and unreliable - like electricity, reasonably maintained roads, clean water, and sanitation (sewage) services.
They admitted to not even having a fab partner, they stated goals/dreams and nothing more. There are 0 numbers for what sort of performance/performance/watt they are targeting...
Frankly it hurts how premature this announcement is.
But it certainly looks like it's been AI generated. Crude, with weird proportions, and apparently little familiarity with how computer PCB are designed. It makes a bad impression, and doubly so when we associate it with a company involved in AI. Please pay more attention to what TPU members, including Americans, are saying about the US CHIPS Act. Despite, in many casees, it's about money being handed to companies who aren't new but have already proven they can make and/or design advanced chips.
Also, it isn't actually odd for a "taxi company" to be interested in AI, they wouldn't be the first as not only is there DiDi in China working on similar stuff in conjunction with autonomous driving, but Waymo and Cruise in the US too.
Looking it up, this wasn't even a presentation by Ola, it was by Krutrim - India's first unicorn in the AI-space, which is not owned by Ola. This whole piece can't even be called a press release, it is based on a WCFTech "article" based on a single tweet by a random person who only had images from the event to show. . .
And calling something AI generated is not offensive nor mean spirited. The comment in question called it "another attempt to extort money from the government". We have seen innumerous examples of tech grifting money from the government (CHIPS act anyone?). Nowhere in that comment was India mentioned explicitly. YOU added that part of the comment to decry it as racism. I'm sure there's a fancy word for this type of literary attack, frankly it's disingenuous. :laugh: :roll: :laugh:
You apparently have not read the articles on intel's troubles, or any article about Huawei's chips, or any flounderings from Europe. These types of projects from the west, especially AI focused, get constant criticism here. This statement tells me you've come to a pre-determined conclusion that the TPU community is filled with "negativity and hostility" and you are inventing evidence and navel gazing to make that reality.
That also begs another question. If the comments are so offensive, negative, and hateful.....why are you reading them and participating? ISDN lines are still widely used throughout the west, especially in more rural areas. Same with faxes, regularly used in government offices, corporate data centers, and educational institutions worldwide. Only recently did we move our nuclear missile program off of floppy disk requirements. There's also the goofy mucking about with their currency, done in an effort to cut down on black market money, which could easily render investments worthless or significantly less valuable. Stable currency is one of the pillars of any major investment.