{"id":51324,"date":"2025-10-28T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/?p=51324"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:55:36","slug":"nvidia-to-invest-us1-billion-in-nokia-to-accelerate-ai-ran-innovation-and-lead-transition-from-5g-to-6g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/2025\/10\/28\/nvidia-to-invest-us1-billion-in-nokia-to-accelerate-ai-ran-innovation-and-lead-transition-from-5g-to-6g\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA to invest US$1 billion in Nokia to accelerate AI-RAN innovation and lead transition from 5G to 6G"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NVIDIA and Nokia have formed a strategic partnership to “put an AI data center into everyone\u2019s pocket<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NVIDIA and Nokia have announced a strategic partnership to add NVIDIA-powered, commercial-grade AI-RAN products to Nokia\u2019s industry-leading RAN portfolio, enabling communication service providers to launch AI-native 5G-Advanced and 6G networks on NVIDIA platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NVIDIA will also invest US$1 billion in Nokia at a subscription price of US$6.01 per share. The investment is subject to customary closing conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The partnership marks the beginning of the AI-native wireless era, providing the foundation to support AI-powered consumer experiences and enterprise services at the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the partnership addresses the fast-growing AI-RAN market, representing a significant opportunity within the RAN sector that is expected to exceed a cumulative US$200 billion by 2030, according to analyst firm Omdia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, NVIDIA and Nokia are also laying the strategic infrastructure and opening up a new high-growth frontier for telecom providers by delivering distributed edge AI inferencing at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T-Mobile US will also collaborate with Nokia and NVIDIA to drive and test AI-RAN technologies as part of the 6G innovation and development process, reinforcing its global leadership in driving wireless innovation. Trials are expected to begin in 2026, focused on field validation of performance and efficiency gains for customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move will enable massive improvements in performance and efficiency, helping ensure that consumers using generative, agentic and physical AI applications on their devices have seamless network experiences. It will also support future AI-native devices such as drones or augmented- and virtual-reality glasses, while being ready for 6G applications such as integrated sensing and communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTelecommunications is a critical national infrastructure – the digital nervous system of our economy and security. Built on NVIDIA CUDA and AI, AI-RAN will revolutionize telecommunications – a generational platform shift that empowers the United States to regain global leadership in this vital infrastructure technology. Together with Nokia and America\u2019s telecom ecosystem, we\u2019re igniting this revolution, equipping operators to build intelligent, adaptive networks that will define the next generation of global connectivity,\u201d said Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe next leap in telecom isn\u2019t just from 5G to 6G \u2013 it\u2019s a fundamental redesign of the network to deliver AI-powered connectivity, capable of processing intelligence from the data center all the way to the edge. Our partnership with NVIDIA and their investment in Nokia will accelerate AI-RAN innovation to put an AI data center into everyone\u2019s pocket. We\u2019re proud to drive this industry transformation with NVIDIA, Dell Technologies and T-Mobile US. Our first AI-RAN deployments in T-Mobile\u2019s network will ensure America leads in the advanced connectivity that AI needs,\u201d said Justin Hotard, President and CEO, Nokia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporting exponential growth in AI traffic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth in AI traffic is exploding. For example, almost 50% of ChatGPT\u2019s 800 million weekly active users access the site via mobile devices, and its monthly mobile app downloads exceed 40 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Nokia and NVIDIA-powered AI-RAN systems, mobile operators can improve performance and efficiency as well as enhance network experiences for future generative AI and agentic AI applications and experiences. They will be able to introduce new AI services for 6G with the same infrastructure, powering billions of new connections for cars, robots, drones and augmented and virtual-reality glasses that demand connectivity, computing and sensing at the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seamless transition to AI-native networks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NVIDIA is introducing Aerial RAN Computer Pro (ARC-Pro), a 6G-ready accelerated computing platform that combines connectivity, computing and sensing capabilities, enabling telcos to move from 5G-Advanced to 6G through software upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NVIDIA ARC-Pro reference design is available for manufacturers and network equipment providers to build commercial-off-the-shelf-based or proprietary AI-RAN products, supporting both new buildouts and expansions to existing base stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nokia will accelerate the availability of its 5G and 6G RAN software on the NVIDIA CUDA platform and expand its RAN portfolio by embedding NVIDIA ARC-Pro at the heart of the new AI-RAN solution. This partnership will enable Nokia\u2019s mobile network customers to transition seamlessly from today\u2019s RAN networks to future AI-RAN networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nokia\u2019s unique anyRAN approach simplifies the introduction of the ARC-Pro platform by establishing software-defined RAN evolution for both Cloud RAN and purpose-built RAN. AirScale baseband is a modular architecture in which new cards can coexist with previously deployed cards. Nokia aims to expand and evolve its AirScale baseband into the 5G-Advanced and 6G era with new AI-RAN capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dell Technologies is driving innovation in Nokia\u2019s AI-RAN solution with its state-of-the-art Dell PowerEdge servers. Engineered for seamless scalability, these servers enable no-touch software upgrades and low-touch silicon upgrades, ensuring a smooth evolution from 5G to 5G Advanced and 6G. With their robust, high-performance infrastructure, Dell PowerEdge servers are pitched as the ultimate compute platform for operators deploying AI-RAN solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future proofed for 6G<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nokia and NVIDIA\u2019s AI-RAN platform unifies AI and radio access workloads on a software-defined, accelerated infrastructure, boosting performance, efficiency and monetization while enabling a smooth, cost-effective path to 6G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New capabilities are added through software updates, future-proofing investments for 6G and beyond while enabling rapid innovation cycles at the pace of AI. It serves growing generative AI and agentic AI traffic on the same sites as RAN functions, applying AI algorithms to improve spectral and energy efficiency as well as overall network performance, and by tapping into underutilized RAN assets to host edge AI services and maximize return on investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cT-Mobile remains committed to advancing next-generation technologies that redefine the customer experience. Our collaboration with industry leaders Nokia and NVIDIA marks an important step toward shaping the future of connectivity as we develop the innovations that will power the 6G era. Building on the foundation established by the AI-RAN Innovation Center in 2024, this strategic initiative reinforces T-Mobile\u2019s leadership in driving the US wireless industry forward. Beginning in 2026, T-Mobile will conduct field evaluations and testing of advanced AI-RAN technologies to ensure they meet the evolving needs of our customers as we move toward 6G,\u201d said John Saw, President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer, T-Mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The telecommunications industry owns the most valuable real estate for AI – the edge, where data is created. This AI-RAN collaboration with Nokia and NVIDIA makes that potential real. We\u2019ve built some of the world\u2019s largest AI clusters with 100,000+ GPUs. Now we\u2019re applying that expertise to distribute intelligence across millions of edge nodes. The operators who modernize their infrastructure today won\u2019t just carry AI traffic \u2014 they\u2019ll be the distributed AI grid factories that process it at the source, where latency matters and data sovereignty is critical,\u201d said Michael Dell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dell Technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional AI networking solutions cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nokia and NVIDIA will also collaborate on AI networking solutions, including data center switching with Nokia\u2019s SR Linux software for the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform and the application of Nokia\u2019s telemetry and fabric management platform on NVIDIA AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The companies will also explore the use of Nokia\u2019s optical technologies and capabilities as part of future NVIDIA AI infrastructure architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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