Semiconductor companies urge FCC to invest in open RAN to expand innovation

Qualcomm and GlobalFoundaries want the Federal Communications Commission to help chipmakers and members of the telecom industry enhance their capacity to embrace open Radio Access Networks and promote open interfaces.

While industry is making efforts to speed the integration of open RAN, current forecasts show the open RAN market is only expected to reach 10 percent of the entire RAN market by 2025, Peter Gammel, vice president and CTO of GlobalFoundaries’ Mobile and Wireless Infrastructure business unit, said at an...