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Exclusive Interview: Ronnie Vasishta, SVP Telecom at Nvidia
eASIC.“ It was around 2015,” he recalls.“ I thought we could build a programmable AI chip that would benefit some of our telecoms customers but, at that stage, the problem was too difficult to solve in a small company.
“ Even then it was clear to me that Deep Learning had tremendous potential, but I didn’ t know yet which silicon platform could solve this performance and power trade-off. I also didn’ t realise that NVIDIA was working on solving this exact challenge. When it announced its collaboration with Ericsson on software defined 5G in 2018, it became clear to me how AI could solve many of the technical and business model challenges in the telecoms industry.”
How NVIDIA is at the forefront of the AI era The speed of the AI uptake since has been significant, as demonstrated in NVIDIA’ s own third annual State of AI in Telecommunications survey, published at the start of 2025. This highlights how the telecoms industry is integrating AI across the board, from deploying external solutions like customer assistants and Gen AI solutions, through to network and infrastructure technology including integrating AI into the RAN.
According to NVIDIA’ s research, 84 % of telecoms professionals worldwide said AI is helping increase their company’ s annual revenue, while 80 % identified the technology as crucial for future success.
44 May 2025