GaAs Integration and More CMOS Content Anticipated

BOSTON–(EMWNews)–Strategy Analytics, the global research and consulting company, today

amplifiers (PAs) for cellphones.

This report from the Strategy Analytics RF & Wireless Components market

research service summarizes efforts by more than 20 firms that will lead

to simplified multi-band, multi-standard cellphone front ends,

potentially reducing the cost of cellphones, while potentially

disrupting established suppliers.

So far CMOS has captured a miniscule share of the PA market compared to

GaAs and LDMOS. However, even in mainstream PA modules based on GaAs and

LDMOS RF power elements, suppliers increasingly add CMOS support chips

for linearity-efficiency management and control, which leads to the

prospect of replacing the entire PA-front end with a potentially

lower-cost monolithic solution in CMOS or SiGe-BiCMOS. New technologies,

such as MEMS tunable elements, could enable this transition.

“The GaAs PA suppliers have stayed well ahead

of CMOS PA firms by responding quickly to market needs, and by

developing improved fabrication processes, filters, complex RF switches,

and low-cost packaging techniques to put these together in modules,”

notes Chris Taylor, author of the report. ”As

we foresee the industry roadmap unfolding over the next five years in

response to market needs, the GaAs and LDMOS PA suppliers will maintain

this lead.”

Asif Anwar, Director of the GaAs and Compound Semiconductor program of

Strategy Analytics, adds, “It is crucial that

GaAs vendors continue to improve the monolithic integration supported by

GaAs for cellular PAs, otherwise CMOS will eventually replace GaAs, as

it did about a decade ago in handset transceivers.”

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operating at the convergence of information, communications and

entertainment technologies. With worldwide headquarters in Boston, MA.

and principal offices in England, France and Germany, Strategy Analytics

focuses on market opportunities and challenges in automotive

electronics, multimedia, consumer electronics, wireless and enabling

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