Wind River announced a collaboration with AMD to provide a commercially available platform that combines open radio access network (Open RAN) functions and AI-powered radio access network (AI-RAN) workloads on the same hardware.
The solution uses AMD EPYC CPUs with Wind River Cloud Platform to host virtualized RAN functions and AI inference concurrently on a distributed system. It targets the issue of traditional setups requiring separate infrastructure for RAN and AI applications, which increases capital costs and integration complexity.
The platform allows operators to consolidate Open RAN and AI-RAN workloads on shared hardware, deploy AI capabilities at the network edge for real-time traffic prediction, anomaly detection, and energy optimization alongside virtualized RAN functions, scale across distributed sites with automated lifecycle management, resiliency, and fault tolerance, and add AI features over time without hardware replacement.
Javed Khan, executive vice president and president of Intelligent Systems at Aptiv, stated that as operators transition from Open RAN trials to commercial deployments, AI becomes essential, and the collaboration enables its addition without duplicating infrastructure.
Philip Guido, chief commercial officer at AMD, noted that telco-grade AI requires flexible, high-performance compute for real-time RAN workloads and AI inference, with AMD EPYC CPUs providing performance and scalability for AI-driven RAN architectures.
The partnership involves joint engineering for AI-RAN software stack optimization, hardware-software co-optimization, a development roadmap, and proof-of-concept deployments.
Live demonstrations and technical overviews are available at the Wind River booth in Hall 2, Stand 2F25 during MWC Barcelona 2026.
