IIT Delhi develops India's first indigenous micro Graphics Processing Unit

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi have designed country's first working, demonstrable indigenous micro Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), in a significant development that can reduce import dependence to a large extent, officials said on Thursday.

According to officials, GPUs are widely used in modern hardware, including in AI and Machine Learning engines.

Currently, all GPUs are imported.

This is the first working, demonstrable indigenously designed micro-GPU from India, they said.

The micro-GPU architecture developed by IIT Delhi researchers will enable indigenous graphics and display-processing systems for embedded applications.

The researchers at the institute's Electrical Engineering department have demonstrated programmable graphics rendering using a custom floating point GPU engine implemented entirely in Register Transfer Language (RTL) and mapped to a Spartan-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform.

"The hardware architecture is a scalable