The big battles for 5G infrastructure processors may be between the chip giants, but there are plenty of start-ups aiming to get involved too. One of these, hailing from Silicon Valley, is EdgeQ, which has emerged from stealth mode with plans for a system-on-chip (SoC) targeted at telecoms networks. It plans to base its product on the open source RISC-V processor architecture and to target applications where AI and 5G are both in use, enabling the same chips to accelerate both workloads and so achieve efficiencies in power consumption, space and processing. According to CEO Vinay Ravuri, processor cycles between 5G transmissions can be used to perform AI tasks, effectively multiplexing the workloads together, “much like how virtual machines run,”…