IntelliBriefs: Ward off espionage :India to design a home-grown microprocessor

• IntelliBriefs: Ward off espionage :India to design a home-grown microprocessor

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  • The chips may have been down at India’s computer hardware sector for some time now, but an ambitious government programme is looking to change that. Top scientists at some of the country’s ace scientific institutions are pooling energies, and the government some money, in an attempt to design a home-grown microprocessor, which they hope will ward off the rising threat of espionage into strategic segments like defence, telecom and space.
  • the current plan has national security as the first priority, especially after reports of a global network of Chinese hackers breaking into sensitive installations worldwide, including the headquarters of Dalai Lama in Dharamshala and telecom networks in the UK. Just a week ago, South Korea had complained of an organised effort by North Korea to hack its government network.