Nvidia has launched a 6G research platform that will help researchers develop the next wave of wireless technology. The 6G Research Cloud platform is open, interconnected, and flexible.
It will help researchers advance the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) for “radio access network (RAN) technology. The physical connection method for radio communication networks, which also forms a major part of wireless communications, is called RAN.
A statement by Nvidia says, “Ansys, Arm, ETH Zurich, Fujitsu, Keysight, Nokia, Northeastern University, Rohde & Schwarz, Samsung, SoftBank Corp., and Viavi are among its first adopters and ecosystem partners.”
The 6G Research platform is expected to be launched around 2030, as per a report by Reuters. “The massive increase in connected devices and host of new applications in 6G will require a vast leap in wireless spectral efficiency in radio communications,” said Ronnie Vasishta, senior vice president of telecom at NVIDIA, in a company release.
He further added, “Key to achieving this will be the use of AI, a software-defined, full-RAN reference stack, and next-generation digital twin technology.”
The 6G platform will have several founding elements. One of them is the NVIDIA Sionna Neural Radio Framework. This framework will “provide seamless integration with popular frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow, leveraging NVIDIA GPUs for generating and capturing data and training AI and machine learning models at scale.”
Recently, Microsoft and Nvidia also expanded their collaboration to accelerate the usage of generative AI everywhere.
“Together with NVIDIA, we are making the promise of AI real, helping drive new benefits and productivity gains for people and organizations everywhere,” said Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, Microsoft.
Along with the advancement of AI, Microsoft is also collaborating with Nvidia in the fields of healthcare and life sciences. This is being done through the integration of social networking, cloud computing, and AI technologies.
