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Radio Components for Cellular Terminals Set to Reach $30 Billion in 2016
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The market for RF and associated radio components in cellphones and other cellular terminals will grow to more than $30 billion in 2016, according to Strategy Analytics.
According to Christopher Taylor, Director, Strategy Analytics RF & Wireless Components, "The advent of phones with four or more W-CDMA and LTE bands has opened up the market to multimode, multiband PAs (MM-MB PAs), accompanied by more complex front-end modules containing filters, antenna switches and duplexers, for example in the form of ASMs (antenna switch modules), SFMs (switch filter modules) and ADMs (antenna duplexer modules). Drain modulation ICs, which can improve the efficiency of a PA tasked with covering more bands or modes, will also make inroads, especially in multimode, multiband LTE smartphones. Based on regional bands, partitioning trends and the number of expected cellular terminals shipped, we expect the market for RF components alone, excluding RF transceivers and basebands, to grow an average 9 percent per year to more than $5 billion in 2016."
Eric Higham, Director of the Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor market research service, added, "Many of the GaAs PA suppliers have positioned themselves to provide more complete solutions for the RF front ends in phones, in particular Skyworks, RFMD, Murata / Renesas, TriQuint and Avago Tech. Each company has its own mix of products and technological strengths, and the direction the market takes combined with new component technologies will play big roles in the success of these companies in cellphones."
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