India Eyes 2030 Date for Top-End GPU Line

India is racing to build its own 2-nanometer GPU (graphics processing unit) from scratch by 2030, with an aim to match global market leader Nvidia Corp.'s projected roadmap and strengthen its home base for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and products.

- Shouvik Das

NEW DELHI:

With $200 million in funding, engineers at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-Dac) in Bengaluru have been tasked with developing the chip, according to four senior officials familiar with the matter, three of whom are directly involved in the project.

The first official said that Nvidia's product roadmap shows that by 2028, cutting-edge chips will be based on the 2nm node. "This means that by 2030, the best GPUs in mainstream circulation in data centers and for AI training will be at this standard," this official said. "That's what our GPU will achieve too, but at a much, much lower cost."