AMD partners IISc Bengaluru to drive high-performance computing, AI research in India

NEW DELHI: Chipmaker AMD’s India unit and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru have partnered to advance high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) research in the country.

AMD will work closely with a team of professors and researchers from IISc to study heterogeneous computing including the areas of core design, AI training, inference, and compilation. The research IP will be jointly owned by both parties. AMD will also sponsor students pursuing research in areas such as low power designs, Machine Learning (ML) based design optimisations, pruning and quantisation for ML models, AMD India said in a statement Tuesday.