Ericsson Silicon

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Cutting-edge innovation on a chip

Delivering value in the 5G era requires relentless innovation. The close co-design of Ericsson Silicon with hardware and software plays a crucial role in facilitating the creation of high-performing, energy efficient and lightweight products for a wide range of deployment scenarios, today and in the future.

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The latest remote and Massive MIMO radios are powered by next-generation Ericsson Silicon with its footprint-reducing, less power-consuming multi-band, and wideband capabilities.

The Ericsson Silicon range of System on a Chip (SoC), is custom-made for mobile networks and spans across the Ericsson Radio System - RAN Compute, radio and transport – to enable communication service providers to surpass the expectations of their end-customers. Our investments in the Ericsson Silicon platform set us up at a higher pace than ever before in delivering new future products and innovative functionality to the market.

Ericsson Silicon is built on a custom-made, flexible, and modular architecture. This is what makes Ericsson 5G radio solutions the high performers they are. At the same time, it optimizes weight, size, energy consumption and as a result total cost of ownership (TCO). Compared to industry benchmark, the RAN Compute portfolio consumes 30-60% less power which is enabled by Ericsson Silicon.

Ericsson Silicon chips have security built in right from the start when the hardware is designed. This provides security from the ground up and is not just an add-on software function. Electronic fuses (eFuses) prevent tampering and access to the crypto keys. At the same time the security algorithms forge an unbroken chain of trust to mitigate risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information and data.

Blog: Ericsson RAN Compute - Why a smaller footprint produces a bigger 5G deployment

Compact form factors, low energy consumption and integrated multi-band support are the principal design factors behind Ericsson’s market-leading baseband solutions, the RAN Compute portfolio, based on a custom silicon strategy. But what does that mean for communication service providers? And how can that lead to scalable, future-proof 5G deployments?

Podcast: Silicon – under the hood of 5G processing

What's going on inside the 5G equipment? What's the difference between having purpose-built hardware for 5G processing and putting the computing into the cloud? In this podcast episode Michael Begley, Head of Ericsson's RAN Compute, explains why processing is increasingly important in 5G, as well as what Moore's law brings to the table.