AMD Taps India’s AI Boom: Reliance Jio Deploys AMD GPUs in Data Centers

 

AMD reconfirmed India as a "super important" market and stated that India's largest telecommunication firm, Reliance Jio, is now utilizing AMD's high-performance GPUs to drive its data center and AI ambitions. The partnership reconfirms India's rapid rise as a global AI innovation hub and reflects Jio's commitment to creating world-class digital infrastructure.

 

Key Highlights:

 

Strategic Partnership: Reliance Jio is using AMD's 'Instinct' GPUs in its data centers, with active proof-of-concept projects in progress and future expansion plans in the pipeline.

 

AI Leadership: More than 70% of top AI companies—such as Jio—now use AMD's GPUs, a stunning turnabout of the competitive situation that was once dominated by Nvidia.

 

Sovereign AI Drive: AMD is collaborating with Jio and other Indian stakeholders to create sovereign AI capabilities, rendering India's technology sector globally competitive and indigenous.

 

Cost & Performance Advantage: AMD boasts its GPUs as more affordable compared to others and delivering the industry's highest performance for AI workloads.

 

Collaborative Ecosystem: AMD is also working with Cisco and Nokia, and Jio, to introduce open-source AI platforms to telcos with the aim of transforming the management of networks and the user experience.

 

Prospects:

 

As India's AI ecosystem picks up speed, AMD's increasing alignment with Reliance Jio heralds a new generation of digital transformation, one that has the potential to redefine telecom, as well as the technology ecosystem as a whole in India and the world.

 

Source: Rediff, Economic Times