Indian Brains behind Intel Tera Chip

Techtree News Staff, Feb 23, 2007 1828 hrs IST

Just recently, Intel developed a 'Tera Research Chip' to deliver supercomputer-like performance while consuming less electricity.

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Just recently, Intel developed a 'Tera Research Chip' to deliver supercomputer-like performance while consuming less electricity.

And, it was a team of Indian engineers at the Intel India Development Center (IIDC) in Bangalore that played a key role in the development of this fingernail-sized chip.

The team comprises 20 members, and was led by Vasantha Erraguntla, an Intel veteran, who contributed almost half of the work that went into the chip in terms of logic, circuit and physical design, while the rest was done at the company's other lab located at Oregon.

Talking about the achievement, Erraguntla said it feels great to lead and be part of a team that is contributing to Intel's global innovation and to the future of technology. The capabilities of Indian engineering talent have been established without a doubt.

The 80-core chip is the result of Intel's "Tera-scale computing" research aimed at delivering Teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) performance for future PCs and servers. It is the world's first programmable processor from a single, 80-core chip, using only 62 watts of electricity, less than many single-core processors today.

IIDC was set up in 1998, and is Intel's largest non-manufacturing site outside of the US. Reportedly, Indian engineers at IIDC work on the design of chips and chip sets, reference designs, system software and packaging technologies, and have full ownership of the development of key Intel chips for the server and mobile market.

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by lakshmikant, dubai, on Mar 30, 2007 06:33 PM, Report abuse Reply

Vasantha your team has done a fantabulous job....keep it up !!!!! do best for the world.........my heartfelt wishes to all you folks........

by pradeep kumar j, Bangalore, on Mar 09, 2007 11:01 AM, Report abuse Reply

Its great...indians are great

by Ramesh, amanagal, on Mar 04, 2007 09:12 AM, Report abuse Reply

india contain abundant talent in it... concern of chip... they can make any kind of invention... as they required.. for .. at any matter of time... but.. only one thing is they firm n instintive

by yogesh nanajkar, hyderabad, on Mar 03, 2007 02:53 PM, Report abuse Reply

tht's gr8 indians can manufacture chips itself

by gopinath, narasaraopet, on Mar 01, 2007 01:15 PM, Report abuse Reply

hi....Vasantha you did a great job.

by SrinivasaRao Si, Hyderabad, on Mar 01, 2007 12:10 PM, Report abuse Reply

Favbulous job done by Vasantha and her team.Congratulations and Go ahead. That is power of indians.

by Raghavendra K R, Hyderabad, on Mar 01, 2007 12:05 PM, Report abuse Reply

Great wrk

by Balram, hyderabad, on Mar 01, 2007 11:55 AM, Report abuse Reply

this proves that indians are very far ahead or par than the techies from other part of the globe.

by thrinath, Hyderabad, on Feb 27, 2007 09:32 AM, Report abuse Reply

This innovation proves that Indian technocrats will lead the vision of future technologies

by Rajendra Burbur, Pune, on Feb 26, 2007 06:27 PM, Report abuse Reply

Great Work Guys. You guys Rock.

by Computer, Pune, on Feb 26, 2007 06:00 PM, Report abuse Reply

Excellent work. You made us feel proud. And also motivated every Indian to step forward and do things that seems to be impossible. Simply gr8 guys. Once again CONGO to you all

by Madhav Babaria, Ahmedabad, on Feb 26, 2007 05:20 PM, Report abuse Reply

its great, but doing u thing name is eqevivelent, name should be super chip or power chip, bcoze its indian mark.

by abdeali, dahod (guj), on Feb 26, 2007 04:34 PM, Report abuse Reply

congrats! to every one who participated in this, i belive my indians they can do something greater. indians have a lot of power but the thing is they didnt get a chance to prove themselves. many more indian are have a capacity, ability,power but they didnt get a chance. only few people got it.. Thats the people are always proved and showing, thats my indians. for eg Intel team(20)

by Murugan, chennai, on Feb 26, 2007 04:32 PM, Report abuse Reply

hey ! thats fantastic. congratulations and keep going on. "All the best"

by Shapath, Ahmedabad, on Feb 26, 2007 03:39 PM, Report abuse Reply

Its begining!!!! We will be happy producing such chips. Lets see how we go about it.

by praveen, Pune, on Feb 26, 2007 03:38 PM, Report abuse Reply

Great Work

by Senthilvelan, Chennai, on Feb 26, 2007 03:17 PM, Report abuse Reply

Hope Indian brains do the same for AMD (and Indian companies), which is a much better company than ruthless cut throat Intel.

by Mr. India, Gurgaon, on Feb 26, 2007 03:07 PM, Report abuse Reply

congratulations to IIDC team.

by Madhusudhan P, Hyderabad, on Feb 26, 2007 02:44 PM, Report abuse Reply

Great!!! Keep it up INDIA

by Ajay, B'lore, on Feb 26, 2007 02:27 PM, Report abuse Reply

Indian Govt should encourage such techies and should form a R&D base for such work so that it can hold the patent instead of private company owns the patent

by vasudevan j, cheenai, on Feb 26, 2007 01:54 PM, Report abuse Reply

It is Great for Every INDIAN that we have contribution in R&D...This make every one proud as indian...

by Srikar, Chennai, on Feb 26, 2007 01:29 PM, Report abuse Reply

IIDC have designed only the half part of the CHIP, other half is architecture and and high level concepts are done by their US counterparts. No can claim it is India or US brain have done it. Well this is agood example of US/India Parternership at the team level.... Cheers, Karhtik

by Karthik.S, Bangalore, on Feb 26, 2007 01:14 PM, Report abuse Reply

As India is stepping forward with all its strenght in IT.....its just the begining.The world will see what we are.Its really great to be an Indian.Hats off to the team who developped such a thing.

by Ravi, Delhi, on Feb 26, 2007 12:28 PM, Report abuse Reply

Really proud to be a Indian..Good.hats of to the Intel Development Team.

by Aarthi Athi, Coimbatore, on Feb 26, 2007 12:02 PM, Report abuse Reply

GOT MOVED BY THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SUCH A MAGNITUTE BY MY FELLOW INDIANS

by RAMESH WADHWA, NEW DELHI, on Feb 26, 2007 11:59 AM, Report abuse Reply

its just starting step to become super power....... rest will come soon......

by kuldeep, lucknow, on Feb 26, 2007 10:28 AM, Report abuse Reply

It's a great news for every Indian that, now world will see India's Brain Power

by Chaitanya, Pune, on Feb 26, 2007 10:02 AM, Report abuse Reply

It's a great moment - indo-european community closed the circle... for the future of the world!... Important news

by Marek SH, Krakow, Poland, on Feb 26, 2007 08:36 AM, Report abuse Reply

Its is time that Intel India's long term business plan is finalized and clear roadmap laid to play crucial part in Intel's technology and product development roadmap. Let us reap the benefit of Indian techno-preneur attitude to the benefit of Intel to regain its market place dominance

by Satish Kumar V, Bangalore, on Feb 26, 2007 08:33 AM, Report abuse Reply

It is really amazing, that our indians out performed in this fashion in contributing their effort which resulted to get a maximum output and proved that indians can achieve the highest horizons in any field, i am very much proud of the team in india.

by Ambrose, Bangalore, on Feb 26, 2007 07:55 AM, Report abuse Reply

It is not late to for us now to change India into a super computer hub-nation inthe world. More than half century ago we missed this chance when Mr. Sanjeeva Rao was union Minister for Technology for developement of chip making as a cottage industry India. I am proud to be an Indian and we all must encourage new talent especilly in the computer field. Wake up politicians.

by Vivek Kolluri, Allen, Texas, on Feb 26, 2007 03:41 AM, Report abuse Reply

Wonderfull... Thats the India.. and Intel... is In(dian)tel... The Great Country of Great Peoples.. Jai Hind

by Shaikh Saoud Ya, Jeddah, KSA, on Feb 25, 2007 03:14 PM, Report abuse Reply

First NVidia 680i and now this! It's really getting more and more interesting.

by Subhajit, Kolkata, on Feb 24, 2007 06:48 PM, Report abuse Reply

Indians leading the waysssssssssssssssss out.........Our Time is Now

by Vivek, Jabalpur, on Feb 23, 2007 11:14 PM, Report abuse Reply

its celebration time. we all are proud of intel india team. go on india....

by anam, jalandhar, on Feb 24, 2007 05:42 PM, Report abuse

Guruji Sonic Yea but lets have a little party that at least some of the Indian fellas here are also doing cutting edge work. But yea I agree that world has not been won as projected.

by Rahul, Noida, on Feb 24, 2007 02:05 PM, Report abuse Reply

indian reaches moon, indian develops fastest processor, bla bla bla. its like that joke where brains from different nations assemble an indigenous machinery and when the time comes for Indian to contribute, he writes "MADE IN INDIA" on the contraption. "indians have the ink, but west provides the canvas to paint on" and govt is still sleeping. sad :(

by sonic, Ahmedabad, on Feb 24, 2007 01:46 PM, Report abuse Reply

keep on doing like these things.

by bharat, amritsar, on Feb 24, 2007 11:17 AM, Report abuse Reply

I agree ..Our time is now. Congrats Intel India Team. It proves that even people out sode india are doing great work to make feel India Proud of its own sons. Great Going....So world will see India coming up from every corner...

by Harshal, Ahmedabad, on Feb 24, 2007 10:07 AM, Report abuse Reply

Keep it up! ... I am proud of you Intel India Team!! Remember the words by Edison "There is always a better way to do that.... find it out" - Edison

by Shanmuganathan, Bangalore, on Feb 24, 2007 10:01 AM, Report abuse Reply

I heard that such a protoype processor would be released after 5 years, but its already out now.May be we can see that in desktop computing , 3 years down the line

by A R, hyd, on Feb 24, 2007 01:57 AM, Report abuse Reply