RF Front End Market to Reach $19B by 2020

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
2x2, 4x4, and 8x8 MIMO for uplink and downlink

Subscribers to Mobile Experts research will also receive qarterly 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.

Contact:
Rachel Lorraine
Mobile Experts LLC
Email
+1 (408) 540-7284
www.mobile-experts.net

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