Ericsson needs Intel inside to support mid-band 5G in its cloud RAN

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has continued its shuffle towards a commoditized, open Radio Access Network by using Intel chips to do its mid-band 5G computing.
The broader announcement concerns support for mid-band spectrum by the Ericsson Cloud RAN portfolio, which was launched last year. At the time it seemed to represent a symbolic concession by Ericsson that the telecoms industry is evolving away from the closed RAN stack that forms much of its business model and today’s embrace of a thi