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[Paris, France, October 21, 2025] At the Network X telecom summit, leading research firm Omdia, together with Huawei and industry partners, released the Telco Cloud Manifesto: Building an Intelligent Telco Cloud Infrastructure for Service Innovation in the Mobile AI Era.

This marks the industry’s first white paper dedicated to the intelligent Telco Cloud, offering a fresh global perspective on telecom infrastructure and providing valuable guidance for operators as they transition into the AI era.

The white paper says the industry is moving toward 5G-A and AI, with Telco Cloud at the heart of this transformation. Around the world, operators are ramping up investments in container platforms and AI technologies while exploring how AI can improve core networks. Survey findings show that more than 60% of operators believe Telco Cloud should support AI training and inference tasks.

To meet this demand, telecom infrastructure must accelerate its evolution from being primarily based on general-purpose computing to AI infrastructure (AI-infra).

Over the past decade, cloudification of telecom networks has driven the adoption of layered architectures and expanded the technology choices of operators. But this shift has also introduced significant integration and O&M challenges, including time-consuming cross-vendor verification, complex cross-layer fault detection, CNF upgrade dependencies, and resource scheduling between VMs and containers. With the rise of AI applications, operators now face the added task of integrating heterogeneous computing power to optimize networks. This further increases system complexity.

In this context, as noted in the white paper, an increasing number of operators are choosing full-stack deployment solutions in order to balance cloud-native capabilities with operational simplicity. Key advantages of this approach include:

• Pre-integration that shortens the verification cycle and accelerates service rollout
• Unified automation frameworks that improve the efficiency of upgrades and O&M
• Direct Kubernetes upgrades to target versions, reducing maintenance costs
• System-level verification that ensures component compatibility and improves reliability
• End-to-end (E2E) performance optimization from the OS to the container platform and network elements (NEs), delivering an experience beyond what layered architectures can provide.

The white paper further emphasizes that future telecom infrastructure must address both evolution and performance. It should support a smooth transition from VMs to containers while protecting existing investments, while delivering carrier-grade performance through traffic offloading and hardware acceleration. To overcome the limitations of traditional CPU-centric architectures, the white paper advocates introducing high-speed peer-to-peer interconnection to converge general-purpose and intelligent computing. This allows for efficient collaboration across diverse computing resources.

In addition, the white paper calls for building an AI enablement platform that offers model management, scheduling, and acceleration capabilities. Such a platform will help operators rapidly develop and deploy AI applications, unlocking the full potential of network intelligence.

The white paper is available here: https://omdia.tech.informa.com/commissioned-research/articles/telco-cloud-manifesto

The release of this white paper signals the acceleration of the Telco Cloud’s evolution from cloud-native infrastructure to AI infrastructure. Additionally, it underscores the industry’s collective commitment to shaping the future of intelligent Telco Cloud. Huawei reaffirms its readiness to work with global partners to drive innovation and open a new chapter in the mobile AI era.

Samsung recognized for AI leadership and accelerating adoption

 

Samsung Electronics recently announced that it has been recognized by Interbrand, a global brand consultancy, as the 5th-ranked global brand for the sixth year in a row. Interbrand releases its list of “Best Global Brands” each year. For this year’s list, Samsung recorded a brand value of $90.5 billion, upholding its position as the only Asian company to remain in the global top five since 2020.

 

According to Interbrand, Samsung Electronics’ evaluation was positively influenced by:

 

• Strengthened AI competitiveness across the company’s business divisions
• Enhanced customer experiences through unified integration across products
• Focused investment in AI-related semiconductors
• Execution of a customer-centric brand strategy

 

“Through AI innovation and open collaboration, Samsung has worked to ensure that more customers can experience AI in their daily lives,” said Won-Jin Lee, President and Head of Global Marketing Office at Samsung Electronics. “Moving forward, we will continue to focus on benefits for customers including in health and safety so that Samsung can grow into an even more beloved brand.”

 

Under the vision of “Innovation for All,” Samsung consistently strives to make AI accessible to more customers worldwide.

 

This year, Samsung reinforced its leadership in mobile AI with the continued advancement of Galaxy AI, aiming to make it available on 400 million devices within the year driving the democratization of AI. In Consumer Electronics (CE), Samsung has expanded AI competitiveness by introducing AI technologies tailored to each product category, such as Vision AI and Bespoke AI.

 

Through open collaboration with diverse partners, Samsung has enhanced personalized AI experiences for customers, while also providing industry-leading security with Samsung Knox.

 

In semiconductors, Samsung has been addressing the growing demand for AI with a comprehensive portfolio across cloud, on-device, and physical AI. This includes actively responding with advanced products including HBM, high-capacity DDR5, LPDDR5X and GDDR7.

 

Beyond AI, Samsung continues to enhance the accessibility of its products and services and drive sustainable innovation across all business divisions. This includes energy savings through energy-efficient appliances connected via SmartThings.

 

 

Samsung’s Recognized Efforts in Each Business Division

 

Mobile

 

• Leading the mobile AI era and driving the popularization of AI with Galaxy AI
• Strengthening foldable category leadership with the launch of Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7
• Enhancing customer trust through strengthened privacy and security technologies
• Expanding health services through advanced wearables, Samsung Health enhancements, and open collaboration

 

Networks

 

• Reinforcing leadership in AI-powered virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRAN) and Open RAN
• Consistently innovating technologies to support various 5G use cases, including high quality streaming and gaming

• Leading the technical standardization of 6G

• Enhancing partnerships with customer companies and communicating the sustainability aspects of Samsung’s network technology

 

Visual Display

 

• Solidifying global leadership in TVs, soundbars, and gaming monitors
• Innovating viewing with rich AI features based on Vision AI
• Enhancing The Frame and Art Store services to deliver personalized art TV experiences
• Expanding content offerings through partnerships in TV Plus, entertainment, gaming, and music

 

Digital Appliances

 

• Maintaining global leadership in categories such as refrigerators and washing machines through consistent product innovation and advanced AI capabilities
• Providing differentiated convenience and advanced AI experiences through SmartThings integration
• Expanding Bespoke AI appliance leadership across energy efficiency, usability, performance, and design

 

Semiconductor

 

• Operating a diverse portfolio across cloud, on-device, and physical AI applications
• Maintaining leadership in mobile and automotive semiconductors, including DDR, SSD, LPDDR, UFS, and Auto SSD
• Continuing development and investment in innovative solutions like CMM-D and HBM
• Sharing vision and industry leadership through influential tech events

 

Interbrand’s Best Global Brands are ranked based on brand value evaluation, which involves a comprehensive analysis of the company’s financial performance and outlook, the influence of the brand on customer purchases, and brand competitiveness (including strategy, empathy, differentiation, customer engagement, consistency, trust, and more). The ranking is one of the world’s longest-standing brand value evaluations, widely recognized for its credibility.