Nokia is trying to recover from a really bad decision it made about 5G chipsets

Last year when Nokia started planning its 5G networking equipment, it made a decision that came back to bite the company in the, uh, chipset. For Nokia's line of "ReefShark" chips, used for its 5G radio, baseband and massive MIMO antennas, it decided to go with field programmable gate array (FPGA) silicon. This type of chip can be programmed by the customer, thus giving Nokia an advantage in getting its 5G gear into the marketplace before the competition. But Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri had to admit that producing FPGA chips cost Nokia more money which reduced its profit margin for the component. ...

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