Intel India sees huge growth from the data centre business in India as adoption of cloud and AI, among businesses, on the rise.

Currently, India accounts for about 1-2 per cent of the total data centre business of Intel. The global revenue from data centre is about $6 billion growing at the rate of 26 per cent year-on-year.

Rajeeb Hazra, Corporate Vice President, Data Centre Group, told BusinessLine here that the company expects the revenue share from India to increase. “Rate of growth in India in high,” he said. This is driven by growing mobile users and quality of talent available in the market.

India is already one of the largest markets for Intel. The company recently opened its a second largest design centre in Bengaluru at an investment of ₹1,100 crore. In the last 20 years, the company has invested close to ₹30,000 crore in India.

Hazra said, “India presents a tremendous market opportunity for us. It is at the forefront of opportunity of what AI can do.”

The company engages with both the government and enterprises. Partnership with government includes ₹4,500 crore worth National Supercomputer Mission, where aids the Centre for Development and Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in technology support.

The mission is jointly implemented by the Department of Science and Technology and Ministry of Electronics and IT at an investment of ₹4,500 crore over a seven-year period.

Hemant Darbari, Director General, C-DAC, said three supercomputers will be launched by March next at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur (1.3 petaflops), IIT-BHU (Varanasi) (650 teraflop) and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (teraflop).

The machines will be manufactured by Atos at an outlay of ₹68 crore in Chennai.

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