How Will 5G AI Transform the Wireless Edge?

The potential of this kind of connectedness opens a new range of use cases that will propel societies into a much more intelligent world, where devices tuned to environments and context and fueled by mega-processing and artificial intelligence (AI) will anticipate needs, self-heal problems, and much more. This design is pushing the storage, control, and compute toward the edge of the cloud, closer to end devices. Moving some of the processing to edge devices is a fundamental part of the 5G vision of connecting trillions of devices. On-device AI processing will be integral in the 5G era for several key reasons: it will reduce latency, decrease bandwidth load, ensure data privacy, increase reliability, and provide a superior means of security. Much of today's AI compute takes place in the cloud.