NIT Raipur to set up advanced chip research and development centre on campus

Raipur: National Institute of Technology Raipur has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Bengaluru-based firm to set up an advanced chip research and development centre on its campus in Chhattisgarh’s capital, an institute official said on Sunday. The “POSIT system-based general purpose-graphics processing unit (GPGPU)” advanced chip research and development centre will be named ViBram Silicon Hub and assistant professor of NIT Raipur Dr Sonal Yadav will head it, a public relations officer of the institute said.

POSIT number system is an alternative to “Floating Point number system” and claims to deliver better performance and accuracy for high-performance applications, specifically those that involve significant mathematical computations, the official said.