Intel + Infosys Deepen AI Tie

Infosys and Intel announced the next phase of their strategic collaboration on March 3, 2026, explicitly integrating Infosys Topaz Fabric with Intel Xeon processors, Intel Gaudi accelerators and Intel AI PCs. (infosys.com)) Infosys launched Topaz Fabric on November 3, 2025 as a composable stack of AI agents, models and services that ships with more than 50 purpose‑built agents and out‑of‑the‑box integrations with nine enterprise platforms. (prnewswire.com)) Nu Skin is named as an early collaborator, working with Infosys to deploy Agent Assist features via Topaz Fabric for its beauty and wellness commerce IT operations. (prnewswire.com)) The companies said they will jointly design, develop, optimize and benchmark AI workloads across Xeon, Gaudi and AI PCs to create “right‑sized” AI architectures that balance performance, security and total cost of ownership. (economictimes.indiatimes.com)) Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said the collaboration “enables enterprises to unlock AI value at scale” in the firms’ March 3 statement. (prnewswire.com)) Intel has publicly pushed Gaudi at scale — submitting MLPerf training runs that included a 1,024‑accelerator Gaudi 2 system trained in Intel’s Tiber Developer Cloud for a GPT‑3‑175B benchmark — positioning Gaudi as a scalable alternative for large workloads. (techpowerup.com)) Intel has also characterized Gaudi 2 in its own releases as the only benchmarked alternative to Nvidia’s H100 in certain MLPerf comparisons, emphasizing performance‑per‑dollar claims. (newsroom.intel.com)) Intel engineers have reportedly resumed upstream work on the Habana Labs (Gaudi) Linux driver, a sign of renewed software support that matters for enterprise deployments. (phoronix.com))