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4 March 2009

 

TriQuint and RFMD leading GaAs firms’ development of dual-mode PAs

The forthcoming availability of dual-mode power amplifiers (PAs) was the most significant announcement from the GaAs industry at this year’s GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain in February, reckons Strategy Analytics’ GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies service report ‘GaAs Device Suppliers Offer Dual-Mode Solutions at MWC’.

With a plethora of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) frequency bands, one of the challenges for the gallium arsenide industry is to supply solutions that provide the widest possible operational range while continuing to reduce size and cost. To this end, at MWC both RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC and TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR announced the forthcoming availability of dual-mode power amplifier solutions.

“Dual-mode PA solutions offer the potential to reduce footprint and cost in W-EDGE cellphones by allowing a single amplification element to do the job of two,” notes Asif Anwar at Strategy Analytics. “Based on the announcements at MWC, TriQuint and RFMD are leading the industry in the development of dual-mode solutions, with product shipments expected in 2010,” he adds.

Other notable GaAs industry announcements analyzed in Strategy Analytics’ report include:

• Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ launched several PA modules for multimode 3G, LTE and WiMAX mobile devices;
• Avago Technologies of San Jose, CA launched a low-noise amplifier module for use in wireless infrastructure applications; and
• Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA launched a portfolio of PAs and front-end modules for LTE (long-term evolution).

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