Enterprise AI has a scaling problem. Companies launch pilots but struggle to move them into production—research shows only 5% of AI pilots achieve rapid deployment, while the rest stall or get abandoned entirely.
Tata Consultancy Services and AMD announced a strategic partnership today aimed at closing that gap. The collaboration, revealed in Mumbai and Santa Clara, combines TCS’s enterprise integration expertise with AMD’s computing hardware to build industry-specific AI solutions designed to scale from day one.
The focus is deliberate: life sciences for drug discovery, manufacturing for quality engineering, and banking for risk management. These are sectors where deployment bottlenecks hit hardest—where promising pilots get stuck between proof-of-concept and production rollout.
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TCS, which generated over $30 billion in revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, will rapidly certify a significant portion of its 590,000-person workforce on AMD’s platforms. Both companies plan to jointly invest in talent development, building teams that can design and deploy production-ready AI systems.
The technical approach reflects lessons from past failures. The partnership will deploy AMD Ryzen CPUs for workplace transformation, AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs for hybrid cloud modernization, and AMD’s embedded computing portfolio for edge AI applications. Rather than one-size-fits-all solutions, they’re building frameworks tailored to specific industry requirements.
“By combining TCS’s deep industry expertise with AMD’s high performance computing capabilities, we are enabling organizations to move from AI experimentation to AI at scale and deployment,” said K. Krithivasan, CEO of TCS. The company stated the collaboration advances its goal to become the world’s largest AI-led technology services company.
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“AI adoption is accelerating, and unlocking its potential requires a new scale of high-performance computing and deep collaboration across the industry,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s Chair and CEO. “Through our work with TCS, we are helping customers translate AI innovation into new growth opportunities across industries.”
The announcement comes as AMD’s stock has surged over 90% in the past year, with revenue growing nearly 32% to reach $32 billion. This surge shows that enterprises are done playing around; they want the infrastructure to launch actual AI tools now.
It makes sense why they partnered this way—combining integration with hardware. It’s a clear sign they believe clients are finally moving from "pilot mode" to full-scale deployment. Whether their approach succeeds where others have struggled will become clear as these solutions roll out to clients in the coming months.
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