Marvell and Samsung collaborate on 5G infrastructure products

The companies have collaborated on baseband and transport processing solutions for base stations based on Marvell’s Octeon and Octeon Fusion processors.

In addition, the companies are collaborating on radio unit architectures designed to meet the compute power required for the beamforming algorithms inherent to massive MIMO deployments.

Network operators are facing the difficult challenge of rolling out cost-effective 5G network infrastructure, while addressing the complexities of higher spectrum frequencies, massive MIMO antenna arrays and super low latencies, the com

Marvell and Samsung say they are addressing these issues by developing integrated solutions with a combination of programmability and performance. Based on the Octeon Fusion platform, these solutions are also enabled by the software ecosystem it provides.

“Samsung is committed to helping mobile operators meet their performance targets,” says Jaeho Jeon, executive vice president and head of R&D, networks business at Samsung Electronics.

Raghib Hussain, chief strategy officer and executive vice president of the networking and professors group at Marvell says “It is our goal to ensure that infrastructure equipment suppliers such as Samsung can allow network operators to thrive in the fast-paced world of 5G.”