Samsung and $AMD Reinforce Strategic Collaboration to Advance AI-Powered Network Innovations for Commercial Deployments

Samsung and AMD say their joint work has moved from testing into real commercial deployments across 5G core, software-based RAN, and private networks
They call out a concrete win in Canada: Videotron selected Samsung to deploy 5G NSA and 4G LTE core gateway solutions running on AMD EPYC 9005 Series CPUs, aligned with a cloud-native, AI-ready core strategy
At MWC 2026, Samsung plans to demo AI-RAN using its AI-powered vRAN on AMD EPYC, including multi-cell test results aimed at proving scalability and flexibility in software networks
The key technical message is that Samsung claims commercial-grade AI-powered vRAN performance on a fully virtualised software stack using the latest AMD CPU, without needing extra accelerator hardware, which they frame as reducing hardware dependency and giving operators more choice
They’re also pushing an edge concept called Network in a Server, a fully virtualised AMD CPU-based setup meant to simplify operations, add AI more easily, and enable new services
Samsung frames all of this as part of an ecosystem approach with chipset optionality, backed by its end-to-end 5G portfolio from RAN to core, including Open RAN, AI-RAN, and a cloud-native AI core