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The recent success of smartphones and wireless broadband has spurred phone manufacturers to push ahead with their 4G plans. This is deemed necessary in order to meet the constantly increasing phone demand by consumers. This should in turn have a positive effect on the compound semiconductor growth industry and impact the cost of GaAs based HBT chips.
Research and Markets provide the latest data on international and regional markets, key industries, the top companies, new products and the latest trends. The Phone Component Forecast is an Excel spreadsheet containing 5-year forecasts (currently 2009 to 2014) for handsets, handset revenues, and handset semiconductor revenue by region and technology type.
The data also includes handset semiconductor revenue by its precise function and forecasts for Wi-Fi dual-mode phones, Bluetooth, GPS and touchscreen phones, cameras, analog TV tuners and accelerometers in phones, and phones with pico projectors.
Predictions by Research and Markets are that LTE applications and multimedia processor revenue will exceed $400 million by 2014. Also the TD-SCDMA handset semiconductor revenue in 2010 will increase more than five- fold compared with nascent 2009 levels.
In addition, the Latin America region is expected to see the most significant growth in WCDMA handsets and exceed the Middle East & Africa by 2011, and the North American and Eastern European regions by 2012.
Overall, handset semiconductor revenue is predicted to see a more moderate five-year compound annual growth rate of 2.1%, as semiconductor revenue for CDMA and GSM handsets declines throughout the forecast period, according to market research firm In- Stat.
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www.compoundsemiconductor.net April/May 2010
GE launches LED bulb to replace 40-watt incandescents by 2014
2010-04-09
New bulb will last 17 years and consume only 9-watts while delivering nearly the same output as current incandescent and halogen bulbs
GE Appliances & Lighting which provides lighting to commercial, industrial and residential sectors has unveiled the Energy Smart LED bulb which is designed to distribute light like an incandescent bulb.
Providing energy savings of 77% over the traditional 40-watt bulb, it will be available by early 2011 and is expected to retail between $40 to $50. The new product has been designed to provide better direct light in all directions and not just out of the top as most current LED bulbs are prone to do.
New U.S. lighting legislation preventing the manufacture of traditional bulbs will come into force from 2012 and the table below shows when the incandescents will have to be replaced.
Incandescent power | Cannot be made from 100-watt | January 2012 75-watt | January 2013 60 and 40-watt | January 2014
The 40-watt incandescent LED replacement offers 450 lumens while currently available LED bulbs produce 350 lumens or less. Other advantages of LEDs over incandescent light sources include improved robustness, smaller size, faster switching, and greater durability and reliability. They are however relatively expensive and require more precise current and heat management than traditional light sources.
“This is a bulb that can virtually light your kid’s bedroom desk lamp from birth through high
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