By Ray Sharma
Publication Date: 2026-03-02 00:10:00
Samsung Electronics announced the successful completion of a multi-cell test at its R&D center, combining Samsung’s virtualized RAN (vRAN) software with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform.
The test validates the performance of this integrated solution in a realistic network environment, marking a key step toward commercial deployment.
Samsung will feature this milestone at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 as part of its broader effort to further advance AI enhancements into its market-leading, software-driven network portfolio using NVIDIA platforms. The company will present an AI-RAN demonstration running on NVIDIA AI infrastructure ― an AI-based downlink performance boost (AI MIMO1 beamformer) that leverages AI algorithms for improved throughput. This demonstration will show how AI can deliver higher spectral efficiency for operators, extracting more capacity from existing spectrum. Together, these activities reflect Samsung’s leadership in bringing AI-RAN innovation towards commercialization.
The companies are also collaborating on driving innovations to enable high-speed connections between the CPU and GPU, by leveraging Samsung’s vRAN and NVIDIA’s unified processor that embeds CPU and GPU into a single chipset. This allows fast and efficient data exchanges between CPU and GPU while enabling optimal balance of performance and total cost of ownership.
Last month, Samsung and NVIDIA continued toward commercialization…
