 Field Programmable Gate Arrays FPGAs -- for its 5G equipment that customers could reprogramme but high costs and supply hurdles last year forced it to change course. We still stand by the decision of going with FPGAs because it was the right thing to do at that time, Sandro Tavares, Nokias head of mobile networks marketing, told Reuters. Nokia, which competes with Swedens Ericsson and Chinas Huawei HWT.UL, had said its 5G products could not reach the market in time due to delays by one supplier, identified by analysts as Intel. 