Bharti Airtel to Steer Clear of GPU-as-a-Service

India's second-largest telco Bharti Airtel will steer clear of offering graphics processing unit or GPU-as-a-service in the near term and, instead, look at scaling up its data centers, vice-chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal said during the third-quarter earnings call on Friday.

- Gulveen Aulakh

NEW DELHI:

"The GPU-as-a-service, we have currently decided to park that because things are changing very fast in that space, the cost of the quality of the chips and the efficiency of the chips. Also, the money that you make on GPU-as-a-service, a lot of it is dependent on sophisticated work around how you manage those workloads," Vittal said, giving the rationale behind the company's decision.