Samsung and AMD Expand Beyond the RAN: What Their AI-Powered Network Partnership Means for Service Provider Engineers
Samsung and AMD have officially expanded their strategic partnership beyond the Radio Access Network into 5G Core, private networks, and edge AI — marking a pivotal shift from lab verification to commercial deployment. Announced at MWC 2026 in Barcelona, this collaboration now puts AMD EPYC processors at the heart of Samsung’s entire telecom software stack, delivering commercial-grade AI-powered vRAN performance without dedicated hardware accelerators. For service provider engineers, this signals that cloud-native, software-defined architecture is no longer a future roadmap item — it is the production reality operators are deploying today. ...