Alvin Lang
Feb 18, 2026 01:02
NVIDIA teams with Cadence, Siemens, and Synopsys to build AI-powered factories across India as the country invests $134 billion in new manufacturing capacity.
India’s manufacturing sector is getting a massive AI upgrade as NVIDIA partners with global industrial software giants and the country’s largest manufacturers to build software-defined factories from the ground up.
The announcement, made February 18, 2026, comes as India pours $134 billion into new manufacturing capacity across construction, automotive, renewable energy, and robotics. Rather than retrofitting AI later, these facilities will integrate NVIDIA’s CUDA-X and Omniverse libraries into their core operations from day one.
Who’s Building What
The partnerships span India’s industrial heavyweights. Reliance New Energy is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA and Siemens to design next-generation gigafactories using digital twin technology. The combination of Siemens’ simulation capabilities with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries aims to accelerate plant design and improve precision before a single brick gets laid.
Addverb Technologies, a warehouse automation specialist, is taking things further—using the same stack plus NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models to train quadruped and wheeled humanoid robots entirely in simulation.
On the semiconductor side, Larsen and Toubro Semiconductor has deployed Cadence Spectre X on the new Cadence Millennium M2000 supercomputer, built on NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture, to shorten design iterations for next-gen AI chips.
Real Numbers From Early Adopters
Some companies are already seeing returns. Havells India Limited, the electrical equipment maker, reported 6x faster fluid dynamic simulations using Synopsys’ Ansys Fluent accelerated by CUDA-X. That speed boost translates to more design iterations, better airflow optimization, and faster time to market for their products.
Tata Consultancy Services is deploying physical AI at Tata Motors facilities, converting standard camera feeds into intelligent sensors for automated quality checks. They’re also testing autonomous safety inspections via quadruped robots in complex manufacturing environments.
The Broader Play
India’s IT services sector, projected to exceed $350 billion this year according to IBEF data, positions the country as a testing ground for industrial AI deployment at scale. NVIDIA’s stock reflects investor confidence in this AI infrastructure buildout, trading at $182.88 as of February 16—up 1.35% over 24 hours with a market cap of $4.55 trillion.
This India push follows NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s announcement on February 6 of the company’s largest-ever partnership with Dassault Systèmes to power AI virtual twins globally. The strategy is clear: own the software layer that connects design to operations across the world’s fastest-growing manufacturing markets.
Pilot projects are already underway with National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited, Torrent Power, and Power Grid Corporation of India Limited. More details expected at upcoming NVIDIA GTC sessions focused on industrial AI and manufacturing.
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