The Biggest MWC 2026 Announcements From AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm And More

At Mobile World Congress 2026, telecom, infrastructure and silicon players put partnerships front and center as vendors pushed AI‑native networking at a time in which the industry is marching toward 6G.

At Mobile World Congress 2026, chip and infrastructure heavyweights doubled down on AI‑native networking and the path to 6G and demoing new platforms and industrywide collaborations aimed at moving operators from experimentation to production.

AMD took to the event to show off its expanded Ryzen AI portfolio with new Copilot+ PC‑ready desktop and mobile processors while joining the Open Telco AI initiative to help bring telco‑grade AI to distributed edge environments. Intel, meanwhile, extended its long‑running partnership with Ericsson to accelerate the shift from 6G research to commercial reality. Nvidia and Qualcomm, for their part, underscored the industry’s pivot toward open, AI‑native telecom ecosystems through new models, blueprints and partnerships designed to operationalize AI across networks. HPE showed off its integrated telco portfolio, while Red Hat rounded out the event with a collaboration‑first message, unveiling new alliances with Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks and major global operators to help standardize secure, AI‑powered platforms across core, edge and network environments.

With so many vendors at MWC that have their sights set on taking telecom, wireless and computing to the next level and partnership news dominating the event, here’s a sampling of a handful of the announcements, products and partnerships that came out of MWC 2026 this week in Barcelona.

AMD

AMD came armed with new products and initiatives at MWC 2026. First up, the company

expanded its Ryzen AI portfolio with the introduction of the Ryzen AI 400 Series and Ryzen AI Pro 400 Series desktop processors for consumers and businesses in what AMD is calling the “world’s first” for next-gen AI PC applications with support for Copilot+ PC experiences. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is also expanding the Ryzen AI 400 Series mobile portfolio to include workstations.

AMD also revealed its participation in Open Telco AI alongside players like GSMA, AT&T, TensorWave and others to help accelerate trusted, production-ready AI deployments in telecom networks. The initiative is about the development of an open ecosystem to develop telco-grade AI software to operationalize it reliably, and efficient compute designed for distributed edge deployments at a time in which telco operators move from AI experimentation to production.

Intel

IT giant Intel has once again joined forces with Ericsson to help the industry shift from 6G research to commercial reality, Intel announced this week.

The collaboration revealed this week is an extension of a decades-long relationship between the two companies. This time, however, the partnership will focus on mobile connectivity, cloud technologies and compute capabilities across AI-driven RAN and packet core use cases, and platform level-security and network capabilities to help enhance ecosystem enablement and time-to-market for cloud-native solutions related to AI-native 6G use cases, according to Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel.

HPE

Networking giant HPE this week showcased the first public reveal of its integrated telco portfolio, which includes networking and compute offerings to help service providers modernize, build and operate their own AI infrastructure with low-latency, high-capacity, AI-native solutions from the core to the edge, according to the company.

The new offerings included the Juniper PTX12000 line of modular routers that lets network operators to scale AI and cloud traffic without repeated infrastructure redesigns and the Juniper PTX10002 line of fixed form routers for high-density routing in a compact 2RU footprint for AI network fabrics.

The company also enhanced some of its existing products to help speed up 5G and AI deployments. The Juniper Routing Director is now agentic-AI ready, which HPE said will allow businesses to connect Routing Director to their own AI co-pilots to quickly fix WAN routing issues and simplify ongoing operations. On the compute side, the HPE ProLiant Compute EL9000 chassis and EL140 Gen12 server lets telecom operators handle twice the network traffic on a single server, reducing infrastructure costs and ongoing total cost of ownership. The integration of the Juniper Cloud Native Router, now available on the 1U HPE ProLiant Compute DL110 and the new 2U HPE ProLiant EL140 Gen12 servers, consolidates RAN and compute functions into a single server.

HPE’s integrated telco portfolio builds on the combined strengths in large-scale telco infrastructure of both HPE and Juniper Networks, along with deep expertise across networking, compute, security and cloud, according to the Spring, Texas-based company.

Nvidia

Nvidia took to MWC with open telco models and blueprints for operators to use to optimize their networks in the AI era, and partnerships are a big part of their strategy.

To start, Nvidia and Nokia unveiled new AI-RAN (Artificial Intelligence-Radio Access Network) collaborations with top telecom operators across Europe, Asia and North America, powered by Nvidia AI-RAN platforms as more operators and partners use Nvidia platforms to bring AI-RAN to commercial deployment.

In other partnership news, Nvidia, together with Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank and T-Mobile, announced a commitment to build 6G on AI-native, open, secure and trustworthy platforms. The commitment is about ensuring that 6G infrastructure is open, intelligent and resilient as a foundation for the world’s future connectivity, the companies said.

Ahead of Mobile World Congress at the end of February, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company unveiled an open Nvidia Nemotron-based large telco model (LTM), a guide for building reasoning agents for network operations, and new Nvidia Blueprints for energy savings and network configuration with multi-agent orchestration to help operators advance toward autonomy, according to the company.

Qualcomm

With a massive amount of news at the show, Qualcomm brought with it new products, a Wi-Fi portfolio, and new partnerships and collaborations.

The company took to MWC 2026 to debut its new Wi-Fi 8 portfolio, including the Qualcomm FastConnect 8800 Mobile Connectivity System and five new Qualcomm Dragonwing Networking Platforms. Qualcomm said that the new portfolio is laying a connectivity foundation for AI era performance spanning mobile devices, access points and gateways. Also revealed was the Qualcomm X105 5G Modem-RF, a 5G-powered platform featuring the industry’s first 3GPP Release 19-ready modem for 6G development and testing. The Qualcomm X105 achieves significant improvements in data speeds and power efficiency, the company said. Also on the offering front was the launch of the new Qualcomm Agentic RAN Management Service within the company’s field-proven Dragonwing RAN Automation Suite. The service, alongside a suite of AI features, designed for commercial Radio Unit (RU) and Distributed Unit (DU) RAN platforms, will enable telcos to transform their networks while unlocking performance and operational efficiencies through their partnership with Qualcomm, the San Diego-based company said.

On the partnership and collaboration side, Qualcomm unveiled an expanded strategic collaboration with wireless specialist T-Mobile to accelerate the wireless industry’s transition from 5G to 6G, with commercial deployments targeted beginning in 2029. Qualcomm also revealed a new coalition with industry partners aimed at accelerating the global deployment of 6G. The new collaboration establishes a milestone-driven road map focused on delivering 6G commercial systems starting from 2029 onward, Qualcomm said. Collaboration partners on this effort include Amazon, Cisco, Dell, Google, HPE and Lenovo, to name a few.

Red Hat

Red Hat’s MWC 2026 news was all about collaboration. The company kicked off the show with the announcement that it is working with Nvidia and Palo Alto Networks on a standardized, secure platform that will operationalize AI across core, edge and network. The offering combines Nvidia’s accelerated computing with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS for real-time threat detection at the infrastructure layer, the companies said.

Red Hat revealed that it has extended its collaboration with the largest communications provider in Canada—Bell Canada—aimed at strengthening Bell’s 5G leadership and helping Bell to modernize virtualized workloads and establish a scalable foundation for digital sovereignty across its IT, network and media infrastructure, Red Hat said.

The Raleigh, N.C.-based company also revealed other telecom infrastructure milestones at the show with Vodafone Oman and Telefonica Spain and Teleconica Brazil.