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Union Minister Inaugurates India’s First FutureLABS Centre in C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram

March 13, 2024

GS Paper III Science and Technology

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Recently, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship inaugurated India’s first FutureLABS centre in C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram.

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar Inaugurates India’s 1st FutureLABS Centre at C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram

  • This FutureLABS Centre will be named the Centre for Semiconductor Chips & Systems for Strategic Electronics.

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC): 

  • About: It is the premier research and development organisation for R&D in IT, electronics, and other areas Established in the Year 1988.
  • Parent Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
  • Objective: It was set up to build supercomputers in the context of the denial of the importation of supercomputers by the USA. 
  • Since then C-DAC has been building multiple generations of supercomputers starting from PARAM with 1 GF in 1988. 
  • Headquarters of CDAC: Pune 
  • Other Centers: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mohali, Mumbai, Noida, Patna, Silchar, Thiruvananthapuram.
  • Notable Contribution: C-DAC built India’s first indigenously built supercomputer, Param 8000 in 1991.

About the Centre for Semiconductor Chips & Systems for Strategic Electronics

  • Chip Manufacturing Ecosystem: It will catalyse an ecosystem for next-generation chip design, manufacturing, and research.
  • Strengthen the R&D Ecosystem: It will help to  strengthen domestic research and development (R&D) and innovation in automotive, computing, communication, strategic electronics, industrial electronics, and internet-of-things. 
  • Significance: 
    • Automotive sector: Focus on R&D and industry-government collaboration to develop electric vehicles, onboard sensors, and autonomous connected devices. 
    • Information and Technology Sector: Focus on R&D in high-performance, quantum, and exascale computers, indigenous microprocessors, accelerators, and blockchain, among others.
Also Read: India’s First Semiconductor Fabrication Plant

News Source: PIB

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