India to develop AI chip from scratch

RT:印度将从零开始开发人工智能芯片

New Delhi has embarked on a mission to develop its own artificial intelligence ecosystem in order to reduce reliance on Western tech giants

新德里已着手开发自己的人工智能生态系统,以减少对西方科技巨头的依赖

India has taken a key first step towards developing its own artificial intelligence chip from scratch, the newspaper Mint reported on Wednesday, citing officials. The initiative is aimed at lessening New Delhi’s dependence on Western tech giants, whose powerful processors have dominated the country’s AI landscape.

印度《mint报》周三援引官员的话报道说,印度已经迈出了从零开始开发自己的人工智能芯片的关键性第一步。这一举措旨在减少新德里对西方科技巨头的依赖,因为西方科技巨头的强大处理器在印度的人工智能领域占据了主导地位。

The country’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) has partnered with state-owned IT and advanced computing centers, including the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), to design the chip from the ground up. The chip will leverage C-DAC’s expertise in building processors based on open-source ‘Risc-V’ core architecture that will have a set of openly accessible standards that can be used by others – akin to the Android architecture used by many smartphone makers.

该国电子和信息技术部(Meity)与包括先进计算发展中心(C-DAC)在内的国有信息技术和先进计算中心合作,从头开始设计这款芯片。该芯片将利用 C-DAC 在构建基于开源 "Risc-V "内核架构的处理器方面的专业技术,该架构将拥有一套可供他人使用的公开标准--类似于许多智能手机制造商使用的安卓架构。

The US has long been at the forefront of AI technology. Chips made by the company Nvidia power the AI behind popular tools such as ChatGPT. However, India is now looking to change this by developing its own AI chip, with work on the frxwork already underway, according to government officials quoted by the publication. They added that New Delhi has set a tentative timeline of 2027 for the production of these chips in India. Experts from Big Tech firms in the US and executives from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Committee (TSMC) are also reportedly consulting with Meity to help develop the chip.

长期以来,美国一直走在人工智能技术的前沿。Nvidia 公司生产的芯片为 ChatGPT 等流行工具背后的人工智能提供了动力。然而,印度现在正寻求通过开发自己的人工智能芯片来改变这种状况,据该刊物援引政府官员的话说,有关框架的工作已经开始。他们补充说,新德里已将在印度生产这些芯片的时间暂定为 2027 年。据报道,美国大型科技公司的专家和台湾(地区)半导体制造委员会(TSMC)的高管也正在与 Meity 协商,以帮助开发芯片。
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India’s quest to develop its own proprietary AI chip reflects a growing trend globally towards indigenous AI technologies. This is particularly significant given the US’s dominance of the semiconductor segment, where it has raked in 70% of global semiconductor revenues, according to the research firm Gartner. The US has recently introduced new regulations limiting the export of AI chips, tightening rules for companies such as Nvidia, in an effort to curb China’s technological advancements.

印度寻求开发自己的专有人工智能芯片,这反映了全球日益倾向于采用本土人工智能技术的趋势。根据研究公司 Gartner 的数据,美国在半导体领域占据主导地位,其收入占全球半导体收入的 70%,因此这一点尤为重要。美国最近出台了限制人工智能芯片出口的新法规,收紧了对 Nvidia 等公司的规定,以遏制中国的技术进步。

In response to these regulations, both India and China have recently made announcements regarding AI. The Indian government in January approved 18 proposals aimed at accelerating AI solutions in key sectors such as agriculture and climate change. This initiative is a key component of the $1.2 billion IndiaAI mission that seeks to develop both large and small language models.

针对这些规定,印度和中国最近都发布了有关人工智能的公告。印度政府在 1 月份批准了 18 项提案,旨在加快农业和气候变化等关键领域的人工智能解决方案。这一举措是耗资 12 亿美元的 IndiaAI 计划的重要组成部分,该计划旨在开发大型和小型语言模型。

China, meanwhile, recently unveiled DeepSeek, a new AI assistant that caused ripples in the industry when it was released and elicited favorable comparisons to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It has already surpassed ChatGPT as the most popular AI assistant on Apple’s App Store.

与此同时,中国最近推出了一款新的人工智能助手 DeepSeek,一经发布就在业界引起了轩然大波,并引起了人们的好评——相对于 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT 。它已经超越 ChatGPT,成为苹果应用商店中最受欢迎的人工智能助手。