![]() These services include research, analysis, advising, consulting, benchmarking, acquisition matchmaking, and video and speaking sponsorships. Moor Insights & Strategy provides or has provided paid services to technology companies like all research and tech industry analyst firms. From my perspective, those are all positive signs that point to the disruptive potential that EdgeQ could bring to the RAN market. It also landed Jim Anderson, CEO of Lattice Semiconductor, as a strategic adviser on its board of directors. ![]() In mid-April, the company added $75 million in funding to aid its ongoing development and upcoming market launch efforts. EdgeQ could be on that path as a mature startup that has recently impressed the investment community with its technical capabilities. Silicon Valley is filled with startups, many of which are vying for "unicorn" status-highly valued and rare. As the saying goes, big things sometimes do come in small packages, and it seems that EdgeQ is delivering on multiple fronts. If that wasn't enough, EdgeQ also integrates an AI engine that monitors radio frequency (RF) spectrum, optimizes beam-forming patterns and 5G massive MIMO scheduling and facilitates RF spectrum monitoring. This should allow operators to achieve significant savings in capital and operational expenses as they support existing 4G and new 5G deployments-and thereby greatly multiply the potential that ORAN represents with its disaggregated, industry-standard approach to traditional RAN hardware. ![]() That is compelling because it is a complete solution that could enable a low-power, small-footprint, high-performance infrastructure device that can function in both 4G and 5G modes. On the other hand, Arm has an architectural reputation for balancing low power consumption and high performance.ĮdgeQ claims it has the only multi-mode 4G and 5G converged SoC offering that bundles production-grade physical layer (PHY) software to manage the requisite protocols and functionality. RISC-V is a highly customizable and scalable architecture ideal for specialized applications. I find its blended architectural design fascinating, so let’s go deeper under the hood!ĮdgeQ utilizes a hybrid architecture consisting of both a RISC-V and Arm processor that collapses a traditional rack of base station communications equipment into a small silicon envelope. EdgeQ is leveraging an SoC design that integrates 4G and 5G functionality along with an AI engine that can scale in performance and evolve its features thanks to being programmable via software upgrades. ![]() A system-on-a-chip (SoC) is a silicon design incorporating all the necessary functional elements for a device or a platform on a single integrated circuit. Given the length of EdgeQ’s development runway, it expects to be shipping its base station–on-a-chip in the second half of 2023.
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