Vodafone has been the most active of the large operators in seeking to drive the Open RAN ecosystem to address one of its biggest challenges – the lack of a fully open architecture at semiconductor level. The MNO already has significant partnerships with Qualcomm and Intel, and has established a European Open RAN silicon lab in Spain, where most of the big names in mobile chips are working on interoperability and common interfaces. Now Vodafone has expanded its efforts, and is working with both Intel and Arm, in a bid to ensure that both the main processor and accelerator platforms are embedded into emerging Open RAN platforms – heading off a scenario in which Intel could achieve the same kind…