India's Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) this week announced[PDF] the country's first self-designed High Performance Computing (HPC) CPU. Named Aum, India's first chip is a chiplet design that can scale up to 96 cores and is based on Arm's v8.4 "Zeus" Neoverse V1 designs (the same ones AWS uses in its Graviton3), and is expected to hit the market as early as 2024 on TSMC's 5 nm process.
Aum was developed as part of its National Supercomputing Mission, a program that aims to reduce India's exposure to possible export restrictions. To that end, the aim is to deploy a nationally-developed processor architecture. Perhaps alarmingly for both Intel and AMD, however, the aim is for Aum to be useable in both high performance computing scenarios as well as personal computing chips. And where Aum exists, the market is smaller.
