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Having secured design wins with Johnson Controls in support of its HomeLink automotive system, the Skyworks system is now being adopted by vehicle manufacturers worldwide. Skyworks also partnered with Ember to deliver innovative ZigBee solutions for the energy management, home area network and industrial automation markets.
Skyworks also launched analogue control ICs for the Nintendo 3DS gaming system and unveiled silicon RF limiters for military radar receiver applications. The company also captured multiple base station transceiver sockets with global infrastructure providers supporting LTE, GSM and femtocell platforms.
Having powered HTC’s next generation smartphones with highly integrated front-end modules, Skyworks claims to have enabled the first commercial LTE handset on a 4G network to allow consumers anytime, anywhere connectivity at data rates up to 100 mega bits per second.
“Based on overall business momentum and the ramp of new applications, we anticipate 30 to 34 percent year-over-year revenue growth in the second fiscal quarter of 2011,” said Donald W. Palette, VP and CFO of Skyworks. “Specifically, we expect revenue in the $310 to $320 million range, significantly better than normal seasonality for the March quarter, with non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.38 to $0.40.”.
RFMD Receives First Production Orders for PowerSmart Power Platforms
The PowerSmart platforms feature a revolutionary RF configurable power core that delivers multiband and multi-mode coverage of all cellular communications modulation schemes.
RF Micro Devices, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, has received its first volume production orders for its PowerSmart power platforms.
The production orders are in support of a highly anticipated smartphone and tablet product family to be launched by a leading cellular handset manufacturer beginning in the March, 2011, quarter.
Eric Creviston, president of RFMD’s cellular products group (CPG), said, “RFMD’s PowerSmart power platforms are a new product category reshaping the future of multimode, multi-band cellular RF architectures. PowerSmart power platforms feature a revolutionary new RF Configurable Power Core that delivers multiband, multi-mode coverage of all cellular communications modulation schemes, including 2G, 3G and 4G, up to LTE 64QAM.”
In addition to the RF Configurable Power Core, which performs all power amplification and power management functionality, RFMD’s PowerSmart power platforms also include all necessary switching and signal conditioning functionality in a compact reference design, providing smartphone manufacturers a single scalable source for the entire cellular front end.
RFMD expects to commence volume shipments of PowerSmart in the current quarter, with sequential growth anticipated in the June 2011 quarter.
GaN Adoption Drives RF Power Markets Forward
According to ABI Research, the use of gallium nitride technologies and spending in the military are now so global that equipment buyers can come from anywhere.
Although spending on RF power semiconductors in wireless infrastructure markets has continued to stagnate, other markets, notably the military, are seeing increased activity.
Also, according to a new study from ABI Research, gallium nitride (GaN), long seen as a promising new “material of choice” for RF power semiconductors is continuing to gain some market traction.
“Gallium nitride increased its market share in 2010,” notes ABI Research director Lance Wilson. “It is expected to do the same in 2011. Although its adoption hasn’t been as rapid as originally
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