Analogue Devices Unveils Disruptive Open RAN Radio SoC at Mobile World Congress 2025

At Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, we caught up with John Oates, Wireless Systems Director at Analog Devices, to hear about the company’s latest innovation: the Samana radio unit system on chip (SoC).

Designed specifically for Open RAN deployments, Samana integrates a number of key features, including built in energy saving capabilities, to radically simplify radio architecture for O-RU vendors.

Oates also outlines some of the energy saving features Analogue Devices have built into Samana, and how these are key to helping operators reduce their OpEx. 

Built for the O-RAN Alliance‘s 7.2 functional split and supporting a wide RF range (400 MHz to 7.125 GHz), Open RAN innovations like these, are positioned to bring both efficiency and security to next-gen 4G/5G infrastructure.