AMD EPYC Dials Up Network and Edge Performance
I kicked off my Mobile World Congress reporting today with a fascinating interview with AMD’s Kumaran Siva on his company’s strategy for network, the intelligent edge, and AI. Kumaran leads AMD market development across the strategic industry segments where EPYC processors shine, and I was keen to get his views on 5G deployment progress and the key use cases and technology developments that will be featured at MWC this week.
At this year’s congress, all eyes are on the edge and specifically progress in adoption of VRAN solutions. These solutions require high performance and energy efficiency, especially in Europe where operators have been hit hard with spiked energy costs. At last year’s MWC, initial implementations of VRAN representing the final frontier of network virtualization was one of the hottest topics.
In our interview, Kumaran was quick to highlight AMD’s progress in 5G and increasing customer interest in EYPC CPUs for deployment success. Those who have followed the TechArena know that I’m somewhat obsessed with the efficiency and flexibility of chiplet architectures, so it may come as no surprise that AMD’s chiplet design enabled them to speed Siena processors to market, delivering the performance, efficiency, and security dialed in for this market. Kumaran confirmed that the Siena series has garnered operator attention delivering low latency, high bandwidth connectivity at the edge. Kumaran went further stating that he sees more uptick in edge deployments due to, in part, the need for high speed connectivity to fuel AI inference at the edge.
What is AMD’s approach in network and telecommunications? It starts with deep collaboration with both partners and operators. Kumaran called out AMD’s partner-centric approach as something uniquely prioritized here at AMD vs other stops on his career journey, and a central driver of the company’s continued gains in market share with their EPYC product line. As 5G continues to proliferate, I’d expect to see AMD continue to make inroads especially where single core performance and performance efficiency is required for workload delivery.
As for Kumaran, he’s interested to see the industry conversation on AI in Barcelona and the transformative juggernaut that continues to drive change in the comms arena. While AI will influence 5G workload evolution, its true force will be felt in 6G standards which AMD plans to be deeply engaged with, in regards to standards finalization.
To learn more about AMD’s engagement in the telecommunications arena, check out our interview, and to learn more about AMD’s 8004 series processors and the entire AMD EPYC processor lineup, visit https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-server-cpu-family
I kicked off my Mobile World Congress reporting today with a fascinating interview with AMD’s Kumaran Siva on his company’s strategy for network, the intelligent edge, and AI. Kumaran leads AMD market development across the strategic industry segments where EPYC processors shine, and I was keen to get his views on 5G deployment progress and the key use cases and technology developments that will be featured at MWC this week.
At this year’s congress, all eyes are on the edge and specifically progress in adoption of VRAN solutions. These solutions require high performance and energy efficiency, especially in Europe where operators have been hit hard with spiked energy costs. At last year’s MWC, initial implementations of VRAN representing the final frontier of network virtualization was one of the hottest topics.
In our interview, Kumaran was quick to highlight AMD’s progress in 5G and increasing customer interest in EYPC CPUs for deployment success. Those who have followed the TechArena know that I’m somewhat obsessed with the efficiency and flexibility of chiplet architectures, so it may come as no surprise that AMD’s chiplet design enabled them to speed Siena processors to market, delivering the performance, efficiency, and security dialed in for this market. Kumaran confirmed that the Siena series has garnered operator attention delivering low latency, high bandwidth connectivity at the edge. Kumaran went further stating that he sees more uptick in edge deployments due to, in part, the need for high speed connectivity to fuel AI inference at the edge.
What is AMD’s approach in network and telecommunications? It starts with deep collaboration with both partners and operators. Kumaran called out AMD’s partner-centric approach as something uniquely prioritized here at AMD vs other stops on his career journey, and a central driver of the company’s continued gains in market share with their EPYC product line. As 5G continues to proliferate, I’d expect to see AMD continue to make inroads especially where single core performance and performance efficiency is required for workload delivery.
As for Kumaran, he’s interested to see the industry conversation on AI in Barcelona and the transformative juggernaut that continues to drive change in the comms arena. While AI will influence 5G workload evolution, its true force will be felt in 6G standards which AMD plans to be deeply engaged with, in regards to standards finalization.
To learn more about AMD’s engagement in the telecommunications arena, check out our interview, and to learn more about AMD’s 8004 series processors and the entire AMD EPYC processor lineup, visit https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-server-cpu-family
