The company jumped ahead of next Monday's meeting with announcements of eight partnerships related to private 5G networks, another topic poised to dominate headlines at MWC Barcelona 2024. Caroline Chan, VP and General Manager of Intel's Network Business Incubator Division, suggested that thanks to a convergence of 5G, AI, and Edge, such deployments will be able to guarantee high bandwidth, low latency, and secure environments, crucial for demanding workloads at the network edge.