The RF Power Semiconductor Device Market below 4 GHz is composed of six
major segments, as defined in a recent report by ABI Research. These
segments are wireless infrastructure, military, ISM
(Industrial/Scientific/Medical), broadcast, commercial avionics, and
non-cellular communications, with each segment branching out into
smaller niches to permit highly specific forecasts for the market.
“Wireless infrastructure represents the
largest segment for RF power semiconductors, and it contains the largest
sub-segment: cellular/3G,” says research
director Lance Wilson. “But cellular/3G is in
a sense a long-term market anomaly that is now in a decline which will
continue steadily over the next five years.”
More efficient air interfaces, coupled with Average Selling Price
erosion and the build-out of the infrastructure base, are what drive
this sub-segment downward from a revenue standpoint. On the device side,
wide-scale adoption of plastic packages diminishes revenue as well; and
over the 2007—2012 forecast period, revenues
for the cellular/3G sub-segment will decline at a compound annual growth
rate of nearly 8%.
“WiMAX, another sub-segment within wireless
infrastructure, remains controversial,”
explains Wilson. “Although fixed WiMAX is
deploying, mobile WiMAX (802.16e) is in a state of flux from a
high-power standpoint. There is a potential large upside to mobile
WiMAX, but there are no guarantees that this will actually occur in a
wide sense.
“In spite of this possibility, the overall
wireless infrastructure segment will decline by a compound annual growth
rate of 2% over the 2007—2012 forecast period.”
Overall, the entire marketplace will exhibit a five-year growth rate of
only 2.9% – illustrating the effect of
Cellular/3G’s decline. However, the remaining
major segments show a healthy compound annual growth rate over the
forecast period of 9.5%, with the military and ISM segments leading the
pack.
The recent study, RF
Power Semiconductor Devices (http://www.abiresearch.com/products/market_research/RFPS),
offers five-year, detailed forecasts for all major market segments and
sub-segments, along with market share data for major industry vendors
and technologies. It forms part of two ABI Research Services: the RF
Power Devices Research Service (http://www.abiresearch.com/products/service/RF_Power_Devices_
Research_Service) and the Wireless
Semiconductors Research Service (http://www.abiresearch.com/products/service/Wireless_
Semiconductors_Service).
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