entirely new design or something with arm architecture or sparc?? because there is a indian government program since 2008 called "india microprocessor program" which calls for a locally designed processor... they started with opensparc/linux as the platform but that project more or less died in 2010... (
Why a made-in-India chip remains chimeric - Livemint )... no locally
designed yet.
if your indian friends are so confident, they can form a group and approach the indian ministry of info. tech. (
Government of India, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) : Home Page ) and convince the ministry for a contract... it was a high-profile project.
can you give the specifications?? did you write the operating system too??
1. you are talking of the extra signalling lines for asynchronous communication... but by constantly simplflying the architecture ( instruction set, i/o architecture etc ) the size can be reduced... for example, my design has less than 20 instructions.
2. i don't see why that should be... what processor does the professor take as reference??
3. it should be less than the current clocked processors, especially with optimizations like in #1.