Open RAN had a muted collective presence at MWC. It cropped up in some of the larger booths, was a subtext in a lot of conversations with the largest vendors, but was definitely far from being a main focus. Nonetheless, there were hundreds of attendees that had Open RAN as their primary concern. RANsemi was one of these, and CEO Peter Claydon was keen to show off the latest developer boards – housing the SoCs that the fabless silicon specialist designs for both radio and base station functions. Now completely separated from the old Picocom vehicle (a strategic decision to avoid complications from Chinese ownership), RANsemi’s first chip, the RNS802, provides the base station capabilities in the O-DU (or the…