Ericsson has opened a new design center in the US focused on microelectronics and accelerating the path to 5G commercialization.
The ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) design center in Austin, Texas will work with core microelectronics bound for 5G radio base stations.
It will work closely with major Silicon processor manufacturers in the area to develop dedicated 5G ASICs.
ASICs are specifically designed for the computation needs of mobile infrastructure, and make up the core of all Ericsson Radio System products. Ericsson said such processors are a hundred times faster, more cost-efficient and less power hungry than general-purpose processors in PCs.
“We are strengthening our radio design capability in one of the world’s 5G pioneer markets. We’ll be up and running with our first group of designers in Austin by the end of 2017,” Ericsson head of networks development Sinisa Krajnovic said.
“Along with our ASIC design teams in Sweden and China, we’ll be making faster, better and greener 5G products to bring into the Ericsson portfolio by 2019.”
Source: https://www.telecomasia.net/content/ericsson-opens-5g-chip-design-center-us
