US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has linked up with Indian 4G and 5G equipment producers such as VVDN and C-DoT to offer telecoms solutions in the nation.

 

“We are bringing leading edge, power efficient technologies to India to power radios, servers and compute requirements at data centres and the edge, and even in the RAN (radio access network),” said Gilles Garcia, senior director business lead, data centre communications group, AMD.

 

AMD has around 10,000 employees in India working on research and development, validation, software development and chip architecture design. The company announced in July that it is investing $400 million in India over the next five years to boost its presence in chip design and software development capabilities, as per economic times. 

 

Garcia said AMD has received good response, with most major local vendors of 4G and 5G players and server makers using its technology. “We are really trying to bring the ecosystem together and raise this ecosystem and help it as much as we can,” he said.

 

AMD does not see many chances in the manufacturing industry because it is a fabless firm that does not build its own processors. However, by assisting local suppliers such as VVDN in the production of servers and radio equipment, AMD is indirectly assisting in the transformation of India into an electronics manufacturing powerhouse, according to Garcia.

 

“Because we are fabless, it is helping us in one form or the other because then we can work with the ecosystem and have them use local manufacturing. But since we do not have manufacturing, we are not involved in the Made in India manufacturing aspect of things,” Garcia said.