RF Integrated Modules for Smartphones Driving 24% Growth in 2015
CAMPBELL, Calif., June 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Mobile Experts LLC released a market study today on RF Front Ends for Mobile Devices. This comprehensive study provides a detailed view of the amplifiers, filters, switches, tuning elements, antennas and integrated modules that form the radio front end. The report covers mobile handsets, tablets, PCs and machine-to-machine modems.
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"The handset market is hot right now, growing by 24% this year," explained Joe Madden, Principal Analyst at Mobile Experts. "The popularity of high-end smartphones with high numbers of RF bands has driven the market toward higher RF content, especially for LTE devices with MIMO and Carrier Aggregation."
"Multiple disruptive technologies are impacting the smartphone radio design simultaneously, so Mobile Experts includes detailed block diagrams and cost analysis to illustrate how the future radio design is likely to play out. We've interviewed more than 50 companies to find a balanced view of future handset design. Other analysts focus on tear-down analysis for a good view of today's designs. Our approach has been very successful in predicting new technology adoption, two years in advance."
"It's a grand time right now for RF suppliers, but the market will be slowing down. This forecast provides some insight into the long-term outlook for mobile handsets and radio content which every RF supplier needs to see."
This 180-page report includes more than 150 charts and diagrams, plus a massive Excel model. The five-year forecast includes shipment, ASP, revenue and market share information for:
Antennas
Amplifiers
Filters and Duplexers
Switches
Front End Modules or FEMs (ASMs, TxMs, PADs, Switched Duplexer Banks, Diversity Filter Banks, and others)
Antenna Tuners and Impedance Match Tuners
Multimode, Multiband PAs (MMPAs)
Envelope Tracking Power Supplies
CMOS PAs
Terminals including handsets, tablets, PCs, and M2M
Carrier Aggregation
2×2, 4×4, and 8×8 MIMO for uplink and downlink
Subscribers to Mobile Experts research will also receive quarterly Expert Insight articles, with strategic analysis of consolidation in the industry, capacity analysis for various players in the RF market and deep analysis of key strategic issues.
Companies Profiled in this Report:
AAC TECHNOLOGIES
ACCO SEMICONDUCTOR
AKOUSTIS INC.
ALTIS SEMICONDUCTOR
AMALFI SEMICONDUCTOR/RFMD
AMPHENOL
ANADIGICS
ANTENOVA
APPLE
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES
BLACK SAND TECHNOLOGIES,
BLACKBERRY (RIM)
CAVENDISH KINETICS
DELFMEMS
EMW ANTENNA CO., LTD
ETA DEVICES
ETHERTRONICS
FERFICS
FOXCONN
FUJITSU
GALTRONICS
GLOBAL FOUNDRIES
HITACHI
IBM
INTEL
IO SEMICONDUCTOR/SILANNA
JAVELIN SEMICONDUCTOR/AVAGO
KYOCERA
LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR
LPKF LASER & ELECTRONICS AG
MEDIATEK
MICROSOFT
MOLEX
MOTOROLA MOBILITY/GOOGLE/LENOVO
MURATA MANUFACTURING COMPANY
NOKIA/MICROSOFT
NUJIRA
ON SEMICONDUCTOR
PARATEK/BLACKBERRY
PARTRON
PEREGRINE SEMICONDUCTOR/MURATA
PULSE ELECTRONICS
QORVO
QUALCOMM
QUANTANCE, INC.
R2 SEMICONDUCTOR
RDA MICROELECTRONICS
RENESAS (MURATA)
RESONANT INC.
RFAXIS
RFMD
ROFS MICROSYSTEMS
SAMSUNG
SAND 9
SHENZEN SUNWAY
SILANNA SEMICONDUCTOR SKYCROSS
SOITEC
SPEED (HUIZHUO SPEED WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LTD)
SPREADTRUM/TSINGHUA
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR
SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
TAI-SAW TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
TAIYO YUDEN COMPANY LTD.
TDK-EPC (EPCOS)
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
TOWERJAZZ
TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR
TSINGHUA HOLDINGS
TYCO
WIN SEMICONDUCTORS CORP.
WIPAM
WISOL
WISPRY
About Mobile Experts LLC:
Mobile Experts provides insightful market analysis for the mobile infrastructure and mobile handset markets. Our analysts are true Experts, focused on topics where each Expert has 20 years of experience or more. Mobile Experts is truly independent, and does not engage in "pay for coverage" practices. Research topics center on technology introduction for radio frequency (RF) and communications innovation. Recent publications focus on Small Cells, Macro Base Station Transceivers, Semiconductors for RRH, Active Antenna Systems, Backhaul for Small Cells, Semiconductors for Small Cells, LTE-A, Cloud RAN, Sync in the HetNet, DAS and 5G.
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Rachel Lorraine
Mobile Experts LLC
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