Published: February 03, 2011
Strategy Analytics: Cellular Power Amplifier Growth Despite Competition and Pricing Pressure
BOSTON - (BUSINESS WIRE) - The Strategy Analytics RF & Wireless Components market report, "PA
Forecast 2011 - 2015," makes a case for the strong growth of
the cellular RF power amplifier (PA) market to $3.7 billion over the
next five years, driven by LTE, multi-mode PAs, cellphone sales in
developing countries and growing demand for data devices.
According to Christopher Taylor, Director, RF & Wireless Components,
"LTE devices will quickly emerge as the second most significant driver
of PA demand after UMTS devices. Most LTE devices require one 2G / 2.5G
power amp, one or more 3G power amps, and one LTE power amp. While this
may sound like a windfall in the making for PA suppliers, OEMs will
demand multi-mode PAs that can handle more than one air interface to
reduce the front-end complexity and bill of materials in LTE mobile
devices. Multi-mode PAs require improved methods to manage linearity and
efficiency, such as envelope tracking, which will bring new players into
the PA market as partners or competitors to existing PA vendors."
According to Eric Higham, Director of the Gallium Arsenide and Compound
Semiconductor service at Strategy Analytics, "The changes coming to the
power amplifier market represent new opportunities for CMOS PAs to
compete with the incumbent GaAs, but also new technical challenges.
Overall, GaAs will remain the dominant technology in PAs over the next
five years, with continuing gains by CMOS and LDMOS especially in
lower-priced mobile devices."
This
report covers discrete PAs, PA-switch modules, PA-duplexers,
multi-mode PAs, and power amplifiers by mobile device generation (2G,
3G, 3.9G / 4G) and by major air interface (CDMA, GSM / GPRS / EDGE,
W-CDMA, TD-SCDMA, LTE). It
also provides an overview of the breadth of product technologies offered
by the leading, front-end module and PA suppliers, and the status of
multi-mode PAs from Skyworks, RFMD, Renesas, TriQuint, and others.
About Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics, Inc. provides timely and actionable market
intelligence focused on opportunities and disruptive forces in the areas
of Automotive Electronics and Entertainment, Broadband Connected Home,
Mobile & Wireless Intelligent Systems and Virtual Worlds. Strategy
Analytics has its headquarters in Boston, MA, and offices in the UK,
France, Germany, Japan, S. Korea and China. Strategy Analytics works
with clients through annual multi-client services, management team
workshops and custom consulting engagements. For more information,
please visit http://www.strategyanalytics.com/.
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ctaylor@strategyanalytics.com
or
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