Marvell has been steadily expanding its position in the RAN market with chips for many elements of the disaggregated 5G architecture, and has strategic deals with Nokia and Samsung, the biggest hitters in the Open RAN space, and with Fujitsu. One of the commercial fruits of the alliance with Samsung is a new system-on-chip (SoC) to be used in Massive MIMO and other advanced radio units for an Open RAN or virtualized RAN environment. The SoC was jointly developed, harnessing Marvell’s processors to support the demanding beamforming requirements of Massive MIMO, and also using some Samsung IP. It is the companies’ first jointly developed single-chip radio and their first to support mid-band M-MIMO. Products based on the chip will be…