Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (00:01):
I'm Clarence Reynolds at MWC26. As 5G core deployments scale, operators are looking for more compute platforms that can deliver high performance, energy efficiency, and proven interoperability. Harini Malik from AMD joins us to discuss how AMD and HPE are partnering to drive 5G core innovations for operator-ready solutions. Harini, thanks for being with us today.

Harini Malik, AMD (00:24):
Thank you for having me.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (00:25):
Harini, I have to ask you, what is AMD doing in the telco space?

Harini Malik, AMD (00:31):
We are so excited in terms of what AMD is bringing to the telco space. In fact, we bring an end-to-end portfolio with the AMD EPYC CPUs that deliver leadership performance and power efficiency and compute that telco needs, especially in 5G, where faster response time, higher speeds, and low latency are very important. And we have our AMD Instinct GPUs that are our leadership in terms of both memory bandwidth as well as throughput and bring in the additional functionalities of AI that everyone needs today. And then our broader portfolio across FPGA and networking kind of rounds it out from a data centre standpoint. And of course, we cannot forget commercial clients and the edge devices that really bring that end to end that telcos need from AMD. So we are very excited in terms of what we are doing. In fact, one of the things I did want to point out is the announcement from GSMA yesterday on the Open Telco AI Initiative in partnership with both AT&T as well as AMD.

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And the general purpose LLMs do not work for telco because telco is highly regulated, it needs reliability, it needs security. And this Open Telco AI Initiative helps all partners co-develop telco AI models in terms of using a real world telco network. So really excited about MWC and all the announcements that we are bringing in.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (02:15):
So what is your outlook on the 5G core development as things are evolving?

Harini Malik, AMD (02:22):
Absolutely. I mean, 5G in many ways requires faster speeds, higher capacity, low latency. And AMD brings that together with AMD EPYC CPUs. In fact, we are certified with all of the key TEMs, the telecom equipment manufacturers, Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, ZTE, Mavenir. So the big large TEMs all support AMD. Let me talk about Ericsson specifically. So Ericsson, both the fourth generation EPYC and the fifth generation EPYC are certified on 5G core. In fact, based on Ericsson's testing, there is a 75% performance increase with a 40% energy efficiency improvement going generation on generation. So a significant jump when it comes to choosing AMD for the operators. Nokia offers actually HPE appliances for the Nokia core network. So we have Genoa that is already in the mix. And then the Turin appliances are to be launched later this year. And the AMD HPE equipment is fully certified for NCP or NFVI 5.0.

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So really exciting to see what we have together with HPE in the 5G core space. Behind me, we have the HPE AMD products displayed at MWC. And I would be remiss if we did not talk about Helios and what HPE and AMD are partnering in bringing the Helios solution together, which is really the end-to-end AMD technologies that we spoke about from the CPU, GPU, networking, bringing all of this together into a timeframe for large scale deployments by the end of the year.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (04:17):
These are exciting times, and we appreciate you spending some time with us. Thank you again.

Harini Malik, AMD (04:24):
Well, thank you.