AMD TO STRENGTHEN ITS DATA CENTRE BUSINESS IN INDIA

Our data center growth in India, in particular, is propelled by increasing market share among the top three hyperscalers, says Jaya Jagadish, country head and SVP of Silicon Design Engineering, AMD India

- BY SHRABONA GHOSH

From the 1940s to 2025, data centers have traversed a long way: From housing mammoth machines based on vacuum tubes and wires to today's powerful servers, the evolution has been colossal. A data center is a physical facility that organizations use to house their critical applications and data. At heart, these data centers are powered by a central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), and data processing unit (DPU).

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a fabless company, designs and manufactures the processors and GPUs that fuel data centers. In the last quarter, almost 50 percent of AMD's revenue came from the data center business. India is one of the strongest growing markets for AMD and the company has made substantial investments and placed strategic bets on the region to foster innovation, talent, and infrastructure for years to come. Data centers are one of the key areas of investment. AMD India plays a pivotal role in the company's global data centre business, contributing significantly to both innovation and development on the global stage. Around 25 per cent of AMD's global workforce is based in India, which equates to approximately 8,000-plus engineers engaged in various projects across the product portfolio.