Nokia has placed heavy strategic weight on its chip strategies and partnerships in the early years of the 5G era. It has had dramatic successes and failures in its development of its Reefshark silicon platform, which underpins a wide variety of infrastructure chips, and in its 5G choices. On the failure side, a focus on FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), in cooperation with Intel, for 5G base station chips was reportedly the reason for some early hiccups in 5G performance, and for product delays and high costs. Nokia pivoted towards a multivendor system-on-chip (SoC) strategy, working with Intel, Marvell and Broadcom, though not before the original problems had helped to force a change of CEO. On the plus side, Nokia’s…