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Shakti: India's first processor

Shakti is a first processor which is built by students of IIT MADRAS , the group of students who developed it belong to the RISE group. For all those who don't know, Shakti means  'Power' . Shakti is an Open-source project. It is built on RISC-V architecture. It has three types of cores namely E class, C class and I class. The class C cores are used to carry out processes like handling smartphone applications and IoT. The class C cores are clocked at 1.5GHz . The class I cores are performance oriented cores which could be used in Laptops and Computers. The class I cores are clocked at 2.5GHz. The two types of Class C processors have already been made among which one is made by Intel, it is a 22nm processor and the second one is made by Department of Space Government of India , it is a 180nm processor, the first one is codenamed 'RISECREEK ' and the second one is codenamed ' RIMO '.  The team has plans to develop super computer grade p