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News Release from: Strategy Analytics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 March 2007
GaAs continues to meet cellular
challenges
GaAs technologies will continue to dominate the radio front-end in cellular handsets, despite competition from silicon technologies.
Strategy Analytics analysts, speaking at the plenary sessions of both the IEEE CSIC Symposium and the Power Amplifier Symposium, have reaffirmed that GaAs technologies will continue to dominate the radio front-end in cellular handsets, despite competition from silicon technologies The move toward 3G and beyond, coupled with the need to maintain backwards compatibility, has led to multimode and multiband architectures, while increasing requirements for linear performance and efficiency in the power amplifier (PA)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to Asif Anwar, Director, GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies for Strategy Analytics: "GaAs is often portrayed as an expensive, exotic technology, but the reality is that GaAs continues to meet the challenges of cost, packaging, time to market and integration for the cellular handset market".
"LTE (Long term Evolution) and beyond will lead to even higher frequencies and datarates, and the PA will continue to be the critical component in mobile phones through 2012".
Stephen Entwistle, VP of the Strategy Analytics Strategic Technologies Practice, adds: "W-Edge has emerged as the de facto standard for new handsets operating across multiple regions by supporting W-CDMA, Edge and legacy GSM and GPRS modes".
"Moving forward, Strategy Analytics expects to see the emphasis on multimode operation remain vital for handset OEMs".
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