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Netrasemi makes first 12nm Indian chip, it all began with Pokhran 2 nuke tests

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Netrasemi makes first 12nm Indian chip, it all began with Pokhran 2 nuke tests

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Netrasemi has achieved silicon bring-up for the A2000, India's first 12nm edge AI chip. The milestone ties Jyothis Indirabhai's post-Pokhran setback to India's push for sovereign computing.

In 1999, Jyothis Indirabhai found himself caught in the geopolitical upheaval. Fresh off a stint as an FPGA engineer at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Trivandrum, he was working as a semiconductor consultant for Hitachi in Japan when India conducted its Pokhran 2 nuclear tests. Almost overnight, global sanctions rippled through the tech sector.

 

 

 

In 1999, Jyothis Indirabhai found himself caught in the geopolitical upheaval. Fresh off a stint as an FPGA engineer at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Trivandrum, he was working as a semiconductor consultant for Hitachi in Japan when India conducted its Pokhran 2 nuclear tests. Almost overnight, global sanctions rippled through the tech sector.

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