Xilinx, which is likely to be acquired by AMD this year, made a significant play for the open RAN market last summer when it launched its Telco Accelerator Card, with O-RAN networks specifically in mind. But it is looking for a wider role in this space, aware that to make an open vRAN software ecosystem tenable, it will be necessary to have high performance semiconductors that can support the capabilities of a 5G macro network without the need for vendor-proprietary ASICs. The FPGA supplier has scored a significant win in this fledgling environment with a deal to power Fujitsu’s O-RAN 5G radio unit (RU), which are being developed for the US market and deployed by Dish in its greenfield open…