Ericsson combats silicon lock-in with AMD deal

Swedish kit maker Ericsson will develop Open RAN solutions that run on AMD processors as well as Intel ones.
With the telecoms industry pursuing software-based, vendor-agnostic network architecture, more attention than ever is being paid to the underlying silicon – not only its performance, but who makes it. And in the case of open and cloud RAN, the most common answer to the latter point is Intel, raising the question of whether operators are merely swapping one flavour of vendor lock-in