AMD, Viettel collaborate in 5G network expansion

World-leading chip maker AMD and Vietnamese tech giant Viettel have completed a 5G mobile network field trial deployment conducted by Viettel and powered by AMD chips.

Designed to meet the growing capacity and performance requirements of mobile users globally, the Viettel 5G mobile network is expected to be completed by the end of 2022, the American semiconductor corporation said in a release from California.

As the largest telecom operator in Vietnam serving more than 130 million mobile customers, Viettel High Tech, a Viettel subsidiary, has a rich history of using AMD radio technology with prior 4G deployments and is now accelerating new networks via new 5G remote radio heads (RRH), AMD added.

AMD is the exclusive radio unit (RU) silicon supplier for Viettel’s indigenous 5G radio development. After the successful completion of the first field trial, Zynq MPSoC chips made by AMD are now set to be extended to an additional 300 Macro 8T8R base stations and 900 5G 8T8R Macro radios, the U.S. giant said.

“5G provides new opportunities to offer higher levels of performance, power efficiency, and new services along with increased reliability required to meet the growing data demands of cellular networks,” Yousef Khalilollahi, corporate vice president of APAC sales, Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group, AMD, said in the release, on which AMD dated December 1.

AMD is listed on Nasdaq in the U.S. as AMD. The giant and Intel are among the world’s largest chipmakers.