February 18, 2026

AMD specific news

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Review: Nominal Gains with Mid-Cycle Refreshedit

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is AMD’s mid-cycle refresh of the Zen 5 X3D lineup. At the core, specifications remain the same as the 9800X3D, but the 9850X3D features a much higher boost clock. While the former has a peak core frequency of 5.2 GHz, the latter tops out at 5.6 GHz, even higher than the 9700X. It does so without increasing the 120W TDP envelope.

Publication: Hardware Times

Competition in news

Nations looking at overarching AI strategy, not just one component, Nvidia exec Calista Redmond saysedit

Calista Redmond, VP Sovereign AI at Nvidia says that nations are increasingly looking at their overarching AI story and not just one component So, I look after sovereign AI for nations globally and get to talk to a lot of countries about the decisions that they’re making and when they think about these decisions they’re looking at their overarching AI strategy , not just one component.

Publication: The Economic Times

Nvidia deepens India bet with AI collaborationsedit

A number of Indian organisations and platforms including Sarvam, Gnani.ai, Corover.ai, BharatGen, Chariot, Zoho, Tech Mahindra, and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) have adopted Nvidia’s Nemotron open models, datasets, tools, and libraries.

Publication: The Financial Express

India doesn’t need hand-down versions of AI products: Inteledit

The aspirations of India and the Global South are no less than those of other countries when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) development across all layers of hardware and software, Santhosh Viswanathan, vice president and managing director (VP & MD) of Intel India, said on Tuesday. “We are an aspirational society. I am not saying that such places need not have a low-cost.

Publication: Business Standard

Arinox AI Launches Air-Gapped, Agentic AI Platform Command Core Built on NVIDIA Infrastructureedit

Arinox AI has introduced CommandCore, a sovereign, air-gapped, agentic AI platform tailored for environments where AI systems must operate without internet connectivity, access to public clouds, or external data sharing. CommandCore enables organisations in the defence, government, BFSI, and critical infrastructure sectors to deploy and manage advanced AI agents entirely within their secure environments.

Publication: Analytics India Mag

Industry news

Moving beyond assembly to design-led semiconductor growthedit

India has made meaningful progress in semiconductor manufacturing over the last few years. Capital has been committed, policies have been rolled out, and capacity is finally being created across fabs and OSATs.

Publication: Manufacturing Today

India to more than double its GPU capacity in six months, says IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at AI Summitedit

India will more than double its GPU capacity within six months, increasing the total number of government-supported GPUs from roughly 10,000 to over 20,000 units, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced at the AI summit. The expansion is aimed at accelerating access to high-performance compute for startups, academia and enterprises under India’s AI mission. By rapidly scaling domestic GPU infrastructure in under half a year, the government seeks to reduce reliance on foreign cloud resources and fast-track large-scale AI model training, deployment and sectoral adoption across public and private ecosystems.

Publication: Times of India

Multiple companies keen on memory chip manufacturing in India: Vaishnawedit

Union IT and Electronics Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said multiple companies are interested in building memory chip manufacturing in India, marking a shift beyond basic semiconductor assembly and packaging. He announced that large-scale commercial memory chip production will begin soon to reduce reliance on imports amid rising global demand for high-bandwidth memory for AI systems. The government has also launched research on next-generation HBM under its semiconductor push, reflecting growing investor confidence in India’s chip ambitions.

Publication: Moneycontrol

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Adani plans $100-bn AI data centresedit

Adani Group has announced a $100 billion investment to build renewable energy-powered, AI-ready data centres in India by 2035, aiming to position the country as a global AI hub. The project described as one of the world’s largest integrated energy-compute commitments is expected to catalyse an additional $150 billion across server manufacturing, sovereign cloud platforms and electrical infrastructure over the next decade, potentially creating a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India.

Publication: The Financial Express

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