TCS, AMD to expand AI partnership to take on Nvidia in India

US-based chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and India’s largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday announced a collaboration to bring AMD’s “Helios” rack-scale artificial intelligence (AI) architecture to India, aiming to accelerate large-scale AI adoption and support sovereign AI initiatives.

Under the partnership, TCS, through its subsidiary HyperVault AI Data Center Limited, will co-develop a rack-scale AI infrastructure design based on AMD’s Helios platform. The companies said the initiative is intended to help enterprises transition from pilot AI projects to full-scale deployments by providing a high-performance, scalable compute foundation.

TCS had announced a $1 billion investment in HyperVault last year in partnership with private equity firm TPG.


As part of the collaboration, AMD and TCS will offer an AI-ready data centre blueprint supporting up to 200 megawatts of capacity. The companies will also work with hyperscalers and AI-focused enterprises to accelerate data centre build-outs across India.

AMD chair and chief executive Lisa Su said in a statement that AI adoption is rapidly shifting from experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, requiring a new blueprint for compute infrastructure. She said that the Helios platform is built for performance, efficiency and long-term flexibility, and that the partnership will help Indian enterprises deploy AI at scale.

TCS managing director and chief executive K Krithivasan said the collaboration laid the foundation for AMD’s first Helios-powered AI infrastructure in India. By combining expertise in AI, connectivity, sustainable power and data centre engineering, the companies aim to deliver state-of-the-art infrastructure solutions for AI companies and global enterprises, he said in a statement.

The Helios platform is powered by AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs, next-generation AMD EPYC ‘Venice’ central processing units, AMD Pensando Vulcano network interface cards and the open ROCm software ecosystem. Together, these technologies are designed to deliver rack-scale AI systems capable of supporting AI “factories” and high-density workloads.

TCS established HyperVault last year with the goal of delivering gigawatt-scale, secure and reliable AI-ready infrastructure for hyperscalers and enterprises. The latest announcement builds on an earlier strategic collaboration between the two firms to help organisations modernise hybrid environments and scale AI adoption.

The move comes amid increasing demand for high-performance computing infrastructure in India as enterprises and government bodies ramp up investments in AI capabilities and digital transformation.