Posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 2:34 pm
LTE and Chinese Infrastructure Deployments Offer Beacons of Hope for RF Power Amplifier and Device Markets
ABI Research
While markets for RF power amplifiers continue their slow decline in developed regions, two new developments – the massive wireless infrastructure rollout in China and the approaching wave of LTE deployments in the West – will provide a temporary lift over the next few years, according to the latest ABI Research forecasts. The Asia-Pacific Region, including Japan, presently accounts for nearly 50% of the RF power semiconductor devices that are sold into the mobile wireless infrastructure segment. And in a happy coincidence for equipment vendors, 2011 is the expected time-frame for LTE deployments in developed countries to really gather a head of steam. “Although LTE has not significantly impacted RF power amplifier and device sales in the near term,” says Wilson, “it is going to bolster RF power sales in the wireless infrastructure space from about 2011 on.”
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