NEW DELHI: The Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, met with global chipmaker Nvidia's team to discuss the development of sovereign graphics processing units (GPUs) and local manufacturing of edge devices such as the DGX Spark in India.
Edge devices are hardware components, such as sensors, cameras, routers, etc, placed in a network, close to where data is generated, processing information locally before sending it to the cloud or data centre.
Taking to social media platform X, the minister said that the devices planned for local development can "deliver up to 1 petaFLOP performance secure inferencing for models up to 200 billion parameters."