Intel® Telecommunications

Telecommunications industry

Power the future of telecom with distributed intelligence

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Telecommunications industry

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Accelerate operations with real-time intelligence

Enable continuous optimization across radio access networks (RANs), edge, and core with AI‑driven control loops that make fast, lightweight decisions—improving performance, reliability, and service differentiation.

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Scale efficiently and confidently across networks

Support inference and network workload needs wherever they run—from the core to regional and far edge environments—without over‑provisioning or sacrificing determinism.

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Unlock new revenue opportunities

Turn distributed compute and edge infrastructure into monetizable capabilities—supporting enterprise service-level agreements (SLAs), low‑latency AI services, and future AI‑native applications.

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Accelerate operations with real-time intelligence
Scale efficiently and confidently across networks
Unlock new revenue opportunities

Intel® Xeon® processors

Smart 5G today. A seamless, AI-ready path to tomorrow.

Three Intel Xeon processors.

Intel Xeon 6 plus.

Introducing

36,864 cores using 32U

offering the highest agent density available (approx 100-kilowatt rack power compute)

Up to

79% greater performance per watt

compared to Intel® Xeon® 6 with Efficient-cores (E-cores) ¹

Up to

30% better performance per thread

compared to competition²

Intel Xeon 6 SoC.

Intel Xeon 6 SoC

Up to

2.4x increase in RAN capacity

vs prior generation³

Up to

14.25x performance/watt gain

vs prior generation⁴

Up to

2x increase in integrated Ethernet throughput

vs prior generation⁵

One platform. Every workload.

AI and agentic networks
Embedded AI: 5G to 6G evolution
Sovereign AI networks
Edge AI

Agentic AI requires more CPUs: Avoiding GPU idle time in modern pipelines

Agentic AI shifts intelligence from one‑time model execution to continuous orchestration. CPUs power the real‑time coordination, scheduling, and security.

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Boosting telecom efficiency: AI agents for smarter ticketing

Tech Mahindra and Intel are revolutionizing ticketing with an AI-driven solution, enhancing efficiency and automation for telecom networking operations.

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From automation to autonomy: Agentic AI is transforming Intel facilities operations

Combining agentic AI with robust data infrastructure and human oversight, IT@Intel is developing self-optimizing facility intelligence.

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Agentic AI requires more CPUs: Avoiding GPU idle time in modern pipelines
Boosting telecom efficiency: AI agents for smarter ticketing
From automation to autonomy: Agentic AI is transforming Intel facilities operations

Build a cloud-native, future-ready 5G core telecom cloud

Together, Nokia, Red Hat, and Intel offer a streamlined adoption path for 5G stand-alone core, delivering superior density, power efficiency, and scalability.

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Higher performance and lower TCO for SASE points of presence and edge servers

Intel® Xeon® 6 SoC with Performance-cores (P-cores) provides a balanced, integrated, accelerated platform for the deployment of SASE resources.

Intel Xeon 6 SoC processor.

Platform and performance advantages to accelerate vRAN deployments

Intel Xeon 6 SoC provides an up to 2.4x increase in RAN capacity,³ enabling a single server per cell site to support the majority of virtualized RAN (vRAN) deployments.

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Build a cloud-native, future-ready 5G core telecom cloud
Higher performance and lower TCO for SASE points of presence and edge servers
Platform and performance advantages to accelerate vRAN deployments

Confidential computing: Powering the next generation of trusted AI

As organizations deploy AI across internal and external environments, protecting sensitive data in transit, at rest, and in use becomes a must-have.

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Silicon-accelerated, AI-enhanced security on Intel® server platforms

Built-in acceleration helps Intel Xeon 6 processors with P-cores improve performance and ROI, delivering better value from AI-enabled security tools.

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Confidential AI: Protecting data and models with Intel® confidential computing

Learn how Intel confidential computing helps secure highly sensitive, strictly regulated information, even in compromised environments.

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Confidential computing: Powering the next generation of trusted AI
Silicon-accelerated, AI-enhanced security on Intel® server platforms
Confidential AI: Protecting data and models with Intel® confidential computing

Edge AI: Intelligent, resilient deployments with a systems mindset

Edge AI requires systems-level integration to succeed at scale and reduce TCO. See how workloads are shifting to distributed environments.

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Scale up performance with a power-optimized, highly integrated server platform

Intel Xeon 6 SoC improves throughput and efficiency for network and edge use cases with P-cores and integrated accelerators.

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Lanner bundles server, SmartNIC for mobile network applications

Lanner uses Intel Xeon 6 to help drive innovation with advanced features for AI-enabled edge applications, vRAN, and multi-access edge computing use cases.

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Edge AI: Intelligent, resilient deployments with a systems mindset
Scale up performance with a power-optimized, highly integrated server platform
Lanner bundles server, SmartNIC for mobile network applications

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Product and performance information

¹ See [9G29] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+. Results may vary.

² See [9W222] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6+. Results may vary.

³ See [7ND21] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6. Results may vary.

⁴ See [7ND32] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel Xeon 6. Results may vary.

⁵ See [7ND26] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel Xeon 6. Results may vary.