Xilinx and NEC collaborate over new 5G radio units

NEC’s next generation of radio units will feature the Xilinx 7nm Versal AI Core, which will help with things like beamforming and OpenRAN.
A few years ago we didn’t talk about these companies so much in a telecoms context but 5G, and especially OpenRAN, have brought them to the fore. One of the most tricky things 5G has to do in order to make efficient use of mid-band spectrum and the massive MIMO it facilitates is beamforming. As an automated way of focusing radio on individual devi