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Which academic institution was responsible for designing the IRIS chip based on the SHAKTI microprocessor, India's push for self-reliance in semiconductor technology, in February 2025?

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IIT Madras

The SHAKTI microprocessor programme is an indigenous RISC-V based processor initiative developed at IIT Madras.

Building on this work, IIT Madras designed the IRIS (Indigenous RISC-V Controller for IoT and Sensor applications) microcontroller chip, which was fabricated using an Indian process line as part of the country's semiconductor self-reliance push and was unveiled in early 2025.

IIT Delhi, NIT Trichy and IISc Bangalore were not the designers of this SHAKTI-based IRIS chip.

Hence, the institution responsible for the IRIS chip based on the SHAKTI microprocessor is IIT Madras.

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