After the disaster of its homegrown 5G RAN chip strategy, Nokia is assembling a selection of semiconductor partners around itself to reduce its risk this time around. Broadcom is its latest partnership announcement, joining Marvell and Intel. Nokia has some significant catching-up to do. Performance issues with the FPGA (field programmable gate array) it co-developed with Intel for its 5G baseband were blamed for teething problems with some customer trials and deployments, and for high costs, and that proved to be a catalyst for a wider loss of market share and of investor confidence in Nokia (see introductory analysis). Late last year, it announced a U-turn in its chip strategy and said it would gradually migrate its 5G platforms to…