AMD and KDDI Corporation, led by new CEO Hiromichi Matsuda, announced a collaboration to utilize 4th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs in KDDI’s advanced 5G virtualized network. The partnership focuses on delivering high performance and efficient traffic processing for 5G networks, with validation starting in 2025 and commercial deployment in Japan planned for 2026.
The collaboration includes extensive validation and testing to strengthen KDDI’s 5G core networks, aiming to enhance customer experience and develop energy-efficient solutions for 5G and next-generation communication infrastructure, including AI-enabled data centers.
The 4th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs will support KDDI’s network scalability, providing the performance and energy efficiency needed for virtualized networks and AI-driven infrastructure.
“We are excited to expand our work with KDDI and President Matsuda to accelerate the transformation of Japan’s 5G infrastructure,” said Dr. Lisa Su, chair and CEO, AMD. “The leadership performance and energy efficiency of our 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors will help scale KDDI’s network capabilities to deliver faster and more energy efficient network infrastructure that is required to power the next generation of virtualized networks and AI-enabled data centers.”
“We are very excited to work with AMD to realize the higher performance and lower power consumption of 5G virtualized networks,” said Hiromichi Matsuda, president and CEO, KDDI. “By leveraging AMD's world-leading semiconductor development capabilities, we expect to dramatically improve KDDI's network capabilities. Furthermore, through this collaboration, we expect that AMD's cutting-edge technologies can be deployed in our data centers in the era of AI, and we are confident that we will be able to accelerate the progress of technological innovation together and evolve ‘the power to connect.’”
