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Srikapardhi April 30th, 2025 11:37 PM 0 COMMENTS

Verizon Frontline Network Slice; Swisscom Cisco AI Agents; Rogers 5G Subway Coverage and More

Several major telecom operators around the world have announced advancements in network infrastructure, AI, and sustainability in April 2025. Cox Communications launched a 4G backup internet solution, while Swisscom and Cisco are building an AI agent-based network. Globe Telecom pledged to plant 5 million trees in the Philippines, and MTS Belarus expanded its 3G capacity with a new UMTS-900 carrier. Also Read: Verizon Satellite SMS; Viasat Demos D2D in Brazil;... Read More

Kripa B April 3rd, 2025 10:39 PM 0 COMMENTS

Reliance Highlights Digital Transformation Milestones for FY24-25: Check Them Out

Reliance Industries highlighted its key digital transformation milestones for FY24-25 in a post on X on April 1. The company highlighted its remarkable progress over the financial year, emphasising its commitment to innovation and connectivity. "As a leader in digital transformation, Reliance has made significant strides in the financial year 2024-2025. From completing one of the fastest 5G rollouts to revolutionising content with JioHotstar, we are committed to empowering millions... Read More

Kripa B March 4th, 2025 9:07 AM 0 COMMENTS

Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco, and Nokia Partner to Build Open Telecom AI Platform: MWC25

Jio Platforms (JPL), in collaboration with US chipmaker AMD and telecom network gear makers Cisco and Nokia, announced on Monday plans to build an open Telecom AI Platform to enhance efficiency, security, capabilities, and new revenue opportunities for telecom service providers. Also Read: Confluent Partners With Jio to Advance Development of GenAI Use Cases in India Intelligence Layer for Telecom Services Leveraging expertise across domains—including RAN, routing, AI data centers,... Read More

Kripa B February 9th, 2025 11:35 PM 0 COMMENTS

AMD and Aramco Sign MoU to Accelerate AI Adoption in Energy Sector

AMD has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi Arabian integrated energy and chemical company Aramco to explore AI-driven digital transformation in the energy sector. The MoU pertains to a potential collaboration between the two companies regarding the evaluation and use of AMD's products and technology to accelerate the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) for specific industrial workloads. Also Read: Aramco Achieves 2.4 Tbps Optical Network Transmission with Nokia... Read More

Kripa B January 9th, 2025 11:06 AM 0 COMMENTS

AMD Invests in Absci to Accelerate AI-Driven Drug Discovery

Generative AI drug creation company Absci Corporation announced on Wednesday a strategic collaboration with AMD to enhance its AI-driven drug discovery capabilities. Through this partnership, Absci will deploy AMD's Instinct accelerators and ROCm software to power critical AI drug discovery workloads, including de novo antibody design models. As part of the partnership, AMD is making a USD 20 million investment in Absci via a private investment in public equity (PIPE),... Read More

Kripa B December 17th, 2024 12:53 PM 0 COMMENTS

Liquid AI Raises USD 250 Million to Build Worm-Inspired AI Models: Report

Liquid AI, an MIT spin-off artificial intelligence startup and foundation model company, has reportedly closed a USD 250 million early-stage funding round, led by chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which is also its strategic partner, at a USD 2.3 billion valuation. Liquid AI develops Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs), which it claims are smaller, more efficient AI models for enterprise use, compared to traditional cloud-based offerings from OpenAI, AWS and Google... Read More

Kripa B November 22nd, 2024 3:14 PM 0 COMMENTS

AMD to Build Hardware-Agnostic Software Environment for AI Development: Report

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reportedly outlined the company's vision for an open-source, hardware-agnostic software ecosystem to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) development, during CEO Lisa Su's address at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). AMD, a key competitor to Nvidia in generative AI chips, is focusing on holistic system design to balance performance, power, and cooling constraints in advanced data centers, according to a Moneycontrol report. Also Read: AMD to Lay... Read More

Kripa B November 18th, 2024 3:23 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone and AMD Collaborate to Develop Next-Gen Energy-Efficient AI-Enabled Base Stations

Vodafone and AMD are collaborating to develop advanced silicon chips for 5G base stations, aiming to boost capacity, enable AI-driven services, and enhance energy efficiency. This initiative, spearheaded at Vodafone's Innovation Centre in Malaga, Spain, uses AMD's Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC (Radio Frequency System-on-Chip) technology to create adaptable, high-performance radio systems. Vodafone said this initiative will help reduce radio antennae size, lower energy consumption and decrease the number of base stations,... Read More

Kripa B November 15th, 2024 5:57 PM 0 COMMENTS

AMD to Lay Off 4 percent Workforce to Focus on AI Chip Development: Report

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is reportedly laying off 4 percent of its global workforce, or about 1,000 employees, to prioritise the development of AI chips, aiming to rival Nvidia in the high-stakes AI hardware market. AMD is seen as Nvidia's main competitor in the lucrative chip market that powers the data centers capable of processing the massive data sets used by generative AI (Gen AI) technologies such as OpenAI's ChatGPT,... Read More

Kripa B October 30th, 2024 11:35 AM 0 COMMENTS

OpenAI is Developing In-House AI Chip with Broadcom and TSMC: Report

OpenAI is reportedly collaborating with Broadcom and TSMC to develop its first in-house chip designed to support its artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Additionally, it is incorporating AMD chips alongside Nvidia chips to meet growing infrastructure demands, Reuters reported, citing sources. Also Read: OpenAI Raises USD 6.6 Billion to Accelerate AI Research and Expansion OpenAI Explores Custom Chip Development OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reportedly explored various options to diversify... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 14th, 2024 5:49 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Partners with Samsung and AMD to Test Open RAN Chip

Vodafone announced that it partnered with Samsung and AMD to successfully demonstrate their first end-to-end data call leveraging AMD's new general-purpose processor or an Open RAN platform. This successful demonstration takes Vodafone one step closer to partnering up with companies to build an Open RAN ecosystem to drive competition and innovation in the market. With a strong Open RAN ecosystem, telcos will have more options to choose from when it... Read More