February 17, 2026

AMD specific news

TCS, AMD Set to Bring Helios Rack-scale AI Architectureedit

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have announced a collaboration to bring AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI architecture to India. Through TCS’s subsidiary HyperVault AI Data Center, the partnership will co-develop AI-ready infrastructure to help enterprises scale from pilot AI projects to full deployments, offering high-performance compute capacity of up to 200 megawatts to accelerate large-scale and sovereign AI initiatives.

Publication: The Economic Times

Competition in news

Yotta, Nvidia To Scale GPU Capacity Multifold In India, Says MD Sunil Guptaedit

Highlighting that to make sure that India is never short of the graphics processing units (GPU) supply when the use cases start getting into production, Sunil Gupta, the Co-founder and Managing Director of Yotta Data Services, stated that the company and US chipmaker Nvidia will soon notify a significant expansion of artificial intelligence computing capacity in the country.

Publication: Business World

Dayananda Sagar University, NVIDIA Partner to Build India s First AI First Factory Using Blackwell Platformedit

Dayananda Sagar University has signed a memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA to establish what it describes as India s first AIfirst factory, aimed at enabling productiongrade artificial intelligence development within an academic environment.

Publication: Var India

Intel CEO-Backed C2i Semiconductors Bags $15 Mn, Largest by an Indian Chipmakeredit

The funding marks the largest round raised by an Indian semiconductor startup, according to PIB. Earlier, in August last year, Netrasami had raised Rs 107 crore ($12.5 million) led by Zoho, with the participation of Unicorn India Ventures.

Publication: Analytics India Mag

AI Summit: Intel’s Santhosh Viswanathan on semiconductors, India’s materiality| Business Newsedit

For Intel, 37 years in India have coincided with several pivotal technology shifts. Santhosh Viswanathan, Vice President and Managing Director for the India Region at Intel Corporation, isn’t one to dwell on past laurels, but does recognise a key role the tech giant played sometimes visibly and often behind the scenes.

Publication: Hindustan Times

Qualcomm showcases AI humanoid robots at India AI Impact Summit: Sneak peekedit

US semiconductor company Qualcomm on February 16 showcased its full robotics technology stack at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, marking its India debut after first presenting the platform at Consumer Electronics Show in January.

Publication: Business Standard

Industry news

Worth a moonshot. India joins the race to launch AI data centres in spaceedit

By now, it is clear that AI data centres are energy guzzlers. Training and running large models demand vast electricity and intensive cooling, straining grids and water supplies. Of late, that pressure has prompted companies to explore compute into orbit where solar power is abundant and vacuum conditions allow heat to be radiated away.

Publication: CXO Today

TN signs MoUs for Rs 5900 cr investment in semiconductor, aerospace sectorsedit

The agreements, signed in the presence of Chief Minister M K Stalin at the Secretariat, here, are expected to generate employment for 8,400 people across the semiconductor and aerospace sectors, an official release said.

Publication: Business Standard

Indian AI, gaming startups take centre stage at AI Impact Summit 2026, showcasing cutting edge innovationsedit

The summit, positioned as a premier global platform on Artificial Intelligence, brings together policymakers, investors, technology leaders and startups to highlight real world AI applications across sectors.

Publication: The Economic Times

India AI Impact Summit 2026 kicks off: What global tech leaders are sayingedit

Thousands of delegates will be attending the event, including top tech bosses from companies like Google, OpenAI, Qualcomm, Adobe, Accenture, Amazon, and Microsoft. In other words, the who s who of Silicon Valley and beyond are here. And each leader has a story to tell about India and AI. Let s take a look at what some of these leaders have to say about the summit.

Publication: Digit

India’s first commercial semiconductor production to begin by month end: Meity Secretaryedit

India’s first commercial semiconductor production is expected to begin by the end of this month (February), said S Krishnan, Secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), on Monday. Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi, Krishnan also said that US based Micron will commence production at its assembly, test, marking and packaging (ATMP) facility in Sanand.

Publication: The New Indian Express

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