While Intel’s Altera and AMD’s Xilinx dominate the market for field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, a third player, Lattice Semiconductor, has been building up a specialist presence in low-power FPGAs targeted at specific applications, such as IoT and now Open RAN. The company has unveiled its fifth application-specific FPGA solution stack, aiming for the fashionable Open RAN acceleration segment, where the two larger FPGA vendors have already made a significant play. Lattice claims its new stack is distinguished by low power consumption on hardware acceleration, robust security for control data, and flexible fronthaul synchronization. The company particular talks up the security aspects of its stack, since critics of disaggregated RAN architectures argue that these networks will…