arxiveess.SPcs.LG2026-07-05
AI-RAN on NPUs: Baseband Processing Without Baseband Chips
Shilong Zhang, Luping Xiang, Jienan Chen, Kun Yang
AI-RAN aims to unify artificial intelligence and radio access network workloads on a shared compute substrate. While this paradigm has so far been demonstrated primarily on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), it remains unclear whether Neural Processing Units (NPUs), which are AI a…