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Netweb Technologies' server racks with glowing blue lights, symbolizing their expansion as India's only NVIDIA-certified GPU

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Netweb, Only Indian NVIDIA-Certified GPU Server Builder,...

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Netweb Technologies builds the machines that other Indian companies use to build AI. That distinction matters more than it sounds. Founded by Sanjay Lodha in 1999, the Faridabad-based firm spent its first decade making high-performance computing systems for scientific research, deploying the Kabru supercomputer at Chennai's Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2004 and later supplying hardware for ISRO's PARAM Ambar and C-DAC's PARAM Yuva-II. By 2023, it had moved into AI infrastructure outright, deploying AIRAWAT, India's AI supercomputer, and signing a manufacturing partnership with NVIDIA to build servers on the Grace and Grace Hopper platforms.

That partnership puts Netweb in a tight group. The company is one of nine global manufacturers certified to build NVIDIA GPU servers, and the only one in India. Netweb listed on the BSE and NSE in July 2023, raised roughly ₹1,200 crore through a Qualified Institutional Placement, and has seen its stock climb 35% year-to-date, trading near ₹4,160 as of November 12.

Swastik Chakrabarti, Vice President of Technology at Netweb, spoke to AIM about what NVIDIA certification actually demands, and how the company's engineers approached a power delivery problem on NVIDIA's NVL72 architecture.

In an exclusive interview with AIM, Swastik Chakrabarti, Vice President of Technology at Netweb, says that the company is one of nine global manufacturers of NVIDIA GPU servers and the only one in India. The company develops custom server designs that undergo NVIDIA certification.

Why this matters Netweb's pivot from pure hardware to a software stack sitting on top of its GPU servers is the more interesting story here. Any company can bolt NVIDIA certification onto a rack of chips, but Tyrone, Kubyts, and Skylus suggest Netweb wants customers locked into its own management layer rather than treating the servers as commodity boxes. For founders and infrastructure teams in India, that's worth watching closely: a domestic vendor offering cluster and container tooling alongside hardware could cut the dependency on foreign-built AI stacks, which matters in a market still importing most of its serious compute.

But a 1999-founded company moving into software now, decades after it built the Kabru supercomputer, raises an obvious question, whether this tooling can hold up against the Kubernetes-native options teams already use. We'd want to see adoption numbers and real deployment case studies before calling this anything more than a hardware company hedging its bets. Still, for researchers and engineers in India weighing where to source GPU infrastructure, Netweb is now a name that comes with more than a rack and a warranty.

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