India, Dec. 10 -- IndieSemiC, an India-based semiconductor design company specialising in chip, RF and system-level solutions, and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a national R&D institution under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on semiconductor and embedded systems development.

The collaboration includes the joint development of an AI chip based on C-DAC Trivandrum's 64-bit VEGA processor, combined with an on-chip Neural Processing Unit (NPU). The chip is intended for use in applications such as smart meters, smart city infrastructure, industrial IoT, defence electronics and sensor-based systems.

The partnership also aims t...