WASHINGTON, Oct. 05, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
- Engineers at the Ericsson Austin ASIC Design Center will work
with core microelectronics of 5G radio base stations
- Site will be close to the major Silicon-fab houses to foster
industry collaboration and sharing expertise
- Recruitments ongoing with aim to employ 80 designers by
mid-2018
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is opening a design center in
Austin, Texas, to focus on
microelectronics and accelerating the path to 5G commercialization.
The Austin ASIC Design Center is open now and recruitments are
ongoing.
ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit. Such
microelectronics are at the core of all Ericsson Radio Systems and
can be seen as processors that are specially made for the
computation needs of mobile infrastructure. They are 100x faster,
more cost-efficient, and less power hungry than a general processor
in a personal computer.
Sinisa Krajnovic, Head of
Development Unit Networks, Ericsson, says: "We are strengthening
our radio design capability in one of the world's 5G pioneer
markets. We'll be up and running with our first group of designers
in Austin by the end of 2017.
Along with our ASIC design teams in Sweden and China, we'll be making faster, better and
greener 5G products to bring into the Ericsson portfolio by
2019."
The Design center will be centrally located in Austin's tech neighborhood, near other
processor manufacturers. Working close to the major Silicon-fab
houses and fostering collaborations will contribute to Ericsson
bringing core silicon technology to develop its unique and
dedicated ASICs.
Niklas Heuveldop, Head of Ericsson North
America, says: "Austin is
one of the fastest-growing cities in the US with a bustling tech
and start up scene. We want to capture the great talent on-hand
there, enabling us to increase digital ASIC capabilities even
further and be close to some of our key global customers."
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