HCLTech announced the launch of an AI Innovation Zone in Chennai, aimed at helping enterprises innovate and deploy Intel-based AI products alongside HCLTech’s AI solutions, speeding up the shift from experimentation to production-ready, cost-efficient AI deployments.
Featuring enterprise AI solutions powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors with integrated Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX) and Intel Core Ultra, the AI Innovation Zone highlights the joint commitment of HCLTech and Intel to drive broad AI adoption through an integrated AI Factory, emphasizing scalable and cost-efficient AI deployment.
Spanning the full AI stack,—from data center infrastructure to end-user experiences on AI PCs—the AI Innovation Zone enables hands-on exploration of Intel Xeon-based HCLTech solutions.
The facility highlights small language model (SLM) optimization and AI Platform-as-a-Service capabilities built on Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift AI, enabling enterprises to simplify operations and accelerate AI adoption at scale. It also features HCLTech demonstrations, including the testing and validation of AI Force, its GenAI-driven service transformation platform; VisionX 2.0, a vision and video-based AI analytics platform and AI Factory, an end-to-end “edge to cloud”, factory-integrated AI infrastructure platform along with real-world use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic AI notebooks, and cognitive AI.
“This AI Innovation Zone reflects our shared intent to move AI from experimentation to business outcomes,” said Raghu Kidambi, CVP, Ecosystems AI Partnership at HCLTech. “By aligning platform innovation with practical engineering and economics, we are creating a repeatable model that helps organizations adopt AI with confidence, efficiency, speed and measurable value.”
“By combining Intel’s scalable heterogeneous compute systems including Intel Xeon 6 and Intel Core Ultra platforms with HCLTech’s deep engineering capabilities, we are enabling businesses to deploy and scale AI effectively across the entire continuum – from data centers to the cloud to the edge,” said Sangeeta Roy, Director, Global Partner Business at Intel.
