Qpisemi is poised to create safe data centre CPUs, cryogenic electronics, and semiconductor process research, adding another feather to Qpi Technology’s cap. Dr. Nagendra Nagaraja, Chairman, CEO, and Founder of Qpi Technology, has announced the launch of Qpisemi, the company’s fifth subsidiary, which seeks to design data centre CPUs that can withstand security attacks in the Quantum era.
Dr Nagendra Nagaraja revealed, “All our subsidiaries are mapped to generate revenues within a year of launch. The same goes for Qpisemi, which is expected to generate early revenues from cryogenics discrete components. But our vision, this time, is much broader. While preparing the groundwork for a highly secure Quantum data centre for QpiCloud, the current CPUs are the weakest links in terms of security.”
With Qpi’s investigation, it became clear that existing CPUs are unable to withstand the security vulnerabilities of the Quantum era. As a result, they developed the world’s most secure data centre CPUs, code-named “Prakarah” (which means “Wall” in Sanskrit). It will be completely Quantum safe, to the point where security flaws like “Spectre,” “SGAxe,” “Crosstalk,” “ZombieLoad,” “RIDL,” “Fallout,” “SWAPGS Attack,” “LVI,” “Foreshadow,” “Snoop,” “PortSmash,” “LazyFP,” “BranchScope,” “NetCAT,” and “Meltdown” will appear to be Mickey Mouse flaws. Dr Nagendra also says, “Further down the road, we will be willing to sell this product to fellow cloud service providers and make the public clouds and Data centres safe and secure.”
“Cryogenic discrete components have tremendous market potential. While we endeavour to build a lot of these components for Quantum solutions stacks, they can also better other areas of applications. To name a few, electronics used in spacecrafts, space rovers, healthcare machines, devices used in extremely cold physics experiments, defence and measurement systems in astrophysics can greatly benefit from our efforts in cryogenic electronics,” said Mr. Pinakin Padalia, co-founder of Qpisemi.
When asked about ISA architecture, Dr Nagendra Nagaraja said, “We have a great relationship with ARM from the initial days of QpiAI. Most likely, the CPU will be based on ARM architecture’s custom ARM v9. We are also ARM-flexi licensees. Although, we are yet to work out a good licensing deal and offer on ISA customization for Data centre CPU. We are also thinking about building our very own Quantum secure RISC ISA from the ground up.”
Qpisemi thinks that designing high-performance and secure data centre CPUs necessitates a deep semiconductor process understanding. Their first CPUs will most likely be up to 64-core server processors targeted at TSMC’s 5nm production node, with proven security features not seen in other existing server CPUs. It will also have one of the lowest TDPs in the same class.
QpiCloud Quantum data centres will deploy Prakarah prototypes throughout the testing phase. By 2025-26, production versions are expected to be accessible on the QpiCloud data centre. In the next five years, the Qpi team predicts a 20% market share of highly secure data centre CPUs in public cloud and enterprise data centres.
They see a period when most CPUs in public clouds and data centres must be Quantum safe. They also stated that in the future Quantum era, it will come as no surprise if Quantum security becomes a legislative necessity in the data centre and public cloud.
“Given Qpi Technology’s experience, we are the youngest and most equipped to set up semiconductor fabrication in the country”. Fabrication and foundry are long-term businesses in which many young companies must participate in it. Qpi Technology and its subsidiaries are preparing to explore manufacturing activities now that the government’s PLI plan is in place.
For instance, QpiVolta is setting up a Giga factory in Bangalore. If the market firms up for Superconductors, SuperQ, another one of Qpi Technology’s subsidiaries will step into Superconductor device fabrication facility. While they wait on Semiconductor Foundries, they want to stabilize existing projects, products and platforms in all of their subsidiaries as well as reach a $100 million revenue at the parent company. Qpisemi may well be the last subsidiary under Qpi Technology and if a foundry emerges, it will be from Qpisemi.
On AI processors, Dr Nagendra Nagaraja said, “For the first rollout of Qpicloud, we are happy to use off-the-shelf GPUs for standard solutions for AI workload. We plan to procure from fellow AI chip makers for custom solutions when required later on.”