AMD says India has become its biggest PC chip market

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is seeing a resurgence in the semiconductor market and India is playing a major role in its turnaround.

“India has become the No. 1market for AMD in the commercial PC segment,” Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer of AMD, told ETin an interview. “This is because of a combination of two things-—winning government tenders and working with large corporations in India.”

AMD is targeting the commercial PC market with its Ryzen Pro chipsets where customers can buy commercial PCs from vendors such as HP, Dell and Lenovo. Papermaster said the company has been successful in government tenders in India.

While vendors like Dell or HP bid for government projects, AMD offers solutions for the compute power they get with the PC and helps manage their IT facility.

Analysts say AMD has a historical record of focusing on government business. “We can’t see them reporting the types of wins they are gaining. Historically, however, they have focussed on winning government deals and working with vendors bidding on government contracts,” said Alan Priestley, research director in semiconductors and electronics research team at Gartner.

-GoITWay