Ahead of the 2026 AI Impact Summit, the India Government has made the country's first indigenous microprocessor official. DHRUV64 is the only Made in India 1.0 GHz and 64-bit dual-core RISC-V SoC which is set to redefine the country's semiconductor landscape.
DHRUV64 is part of India's Microprocessor Development Programme (MDP)
The official Press Information Bureau of India (PIB) report states that DHRUV64 has been built from scratch by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). From the Faber design to silicon testing, C-DAC has conducted the full end-to-end architecture process in India.
The SoC has been fabricated on a 28 nm node and comprises a 64-bit dual-core chip design. It currently maxes out at 1.0 GHz clock speed and supports superscalar execution for multiple instructions at a time.
This makes DHRUV64 versatile and ready for use in a wide range of systems. It can find use cases in India's 5G infrastructure, the automotive and industrial sector and even inside consumer electronics like IoT (Internet of Things) devices.
With DHRUV64, India has finally taken the first step to end reliance on foreign semiconductor vendors for Made in India products. PIB has confirmed that this milestone step will pave the way for cost-effective silicon in India, a rise in Indian chip design engineers and a concrete baseline for the next generation of processors.
Also, DHRUV64 is built on open-source platforms. This removes the friction for licence payments, which in turn reduces the cost for manufacturers to adopt and use the microprocessor inside their devices. That said, the success of DHRUV64 will pave the way for Dhanush (28 nm) and Dhanush+ (16/14 nm) processors, which the government is already working on.
