Dell aggressively hiking local content in India-made servers: India President Manish Gupta

Dell Technologies India is aggressively increasing the indigenised content in it's made-in-India servers, and aiming for up to 50% domestic content for its notebooks, specifically the Dell Pro 14 and Pro 14 Plus models, under the production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme 2.0 for IT hardware, Manish Gupta, president and MD of Dell Technologies India, told ET in an interview.

Speaking on the sidelines of the IndiaAI Impact Summit, Gupta said the growth in artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled PCs is currently in "multiples" of the growth seen in the general PC market.

At a time when technology experts have begun hinting at a radical change in the form factor of the PC, Gupta said the traditional PC continues to be the quintessential device for both consumption and creation at the edge.


Stressing that the India manufacturing operation remains a major focus for Dell Technologies, Gupta said the company has achieved zero-defects at its Sriperumbudur factory near Chennai. The facility has so far produced 1.6 crore devices that have been sold in India.

According to him, the facility has been supplying servers for the past 4-5 years, and a push towards further indigenisation would continue. The company was enrolled into PLI 2.0 in September 2025, and is adhering to all policy requirements, Gupta said.

On Dell's recent partnership with Nvidia to set up the AI factory, Gupta said it was planned as an end-to-end stack. "It starts with data management, moves to compute, networking, and storage, and works with an open ecosystem so customers can build their own stacks," he said.

The end-to-end enterprise solution integrates Dell's high-performance servers, storage, and networking with NVIDIA's advanced AI software and GPU infrastructure to enable organizations to develop, tune, and deploy GenAI models.

The solution has been deployed with law firm Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan for context-rich, citation-led legal insights using their proprietary data, Gupta said. Meanwhile, business application provider Zoho is using it to build multi-model agents for internal efficiency and customer bots.

Dell's upcoming AI blueprint will focus on the investment in compute capacity, large-scale skilling of over a million engineers, and the evolution of ethical governance frameworks, he said. AI is being leveraged across all business verticals of the company, with real life deployments including Dell private cloud for Florida, United States-based Omega Healthcare, a revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions provider.

On cybersecurity risks plaguing major tech giants, Gupta said the company has adopted a zero-trust framework, requiring multiple validation steps for every interaction. "In servers, we have an immutable silicon root of trust to ensure no malware can enter at the core. We also use *air-gap solutions* for rapid cyber recovery," he said.

Gupta believes Dell's tightly controlled global supply chain remains its biggest advantage. "Our objective is to leverage this network across multiple countries to provide value, which gives us a differentiated advantage and stability," he said.