New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and IT services major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Tuesday announced an expanded strategic partnership to bring a 200 megawatt (MW) deployment of AMD's 'Helios' rack-scale AI architecture to India, in a move aimed at supporting sovereign AI infrastructure and large-scale enterprise adoption.
The companies said TCS, through its subsidiary HyperVault AI Data Centre Ltd, will co-develop a rack-scale AI infrastructure design based on the AMD 'Helios' platform. The blueprint is intended to power so-called sovereign AI factories and next-generation data centres catering to hyperscalers, AI-native firms and large enterprises.
The AI stack will be powered by AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs, next-generation EPYC 'Venice' CPUs, Pensando Vulcano NICs and the open ROCm software ecosystem. The companies said the architecture is designed to support both AI training and inference workloads, while improving operational efficiency and reducing time-to-deployment for enterprise customers.
As part of the collaboration, AMD and TCS will offer an AI-ready data centre blueprint supporting up to 200 MW of capacity, and work with hyperscalers and AI companies to accelerate data centre build-outs in India. The move comes amid rising demand for domestic AI compute capacity, as enterprises move from pilot projects to production-scale AI deployments.
"AI adoption is accelerating from pilots to large-scale deployments, and that shift requires a new blueprint for compute infrastructure," said Lisa Su, Chair and CEO of AMD. She said the 'Helios' platform is designed as an open, rack-scale AI system focused on performance, efficiency and long-term flexibility.
K. Krithivasan, managing director and chief executive of TCS, said the collaboration would lay the foundation for AMD's first 'Helios'-powered AI infrastructure in India. He added that the partnership combines TCS' capabilities in AI, connectivity, sustainable power and data centre engineering to deliver advanced infrastructure for AI companies and global enterprises.
TCS set up HyperVault in 2025 to build GW-scale, secure and AI-ready infrastructure for hyperscalers and enterprises. The latest announcement builds on an earlier strategic collaboration between AMD and TCS to help enterprises scale AI adoption and modernise hybrid IT environments, as India sharpens its focus on building domestic AI capacity and digital public infrastructure.
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