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roughly 6 percent to close 2011 with slightly more than $5.2 billion of revenue.
The report also forecasts that slowing smartphone growth and an uncertain global economy will limit future growth rates below historical averages and the market will reach slightly more than $6.1 billion in 2016.
“The GaAs market began the year with strong growth”, notes Eric Higham, Director of the Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service (GaAs). “Toward the end of the year, slowing growth in the smartphone segment and uncertainty in the global economy became the overriding trends and the overall GaAs device market slowed substantially. The underlying trends in the GaAs market still support growth, but uncertainty in the economy is likely to limit this growth.”
Asif Anwar, Director in the Strategy Analytics Strategic Technologies Practice adds, “We remain convinced that data consumption and GaAs content in handsets will increase, but fluctuations in the global economy will put a damper on network and consumer spending.”
RFMD chip powers Samsung’s latest GALAXY Note II
The firm’s RFMD’s product portfolio supports Samsung products across all product tiers and baseband architectures
RF Micro Devices’ PowerSmart power platform, claimed to be the industry’s first and only converged multimode, multiband (MMMB) power amplifier, is enabling Samsung’s next-generation GALAXY Note II.
Bob Bruggeworth, president and CEO of RFMD, says, “We are delighted to support Samsung’s next- generation GALAXY Note II as well as numerous other flagship devices in Samsung’s exciting product family. With the ramp of the GALAXY Note II, RFMD extends our coverage of Samsung’s product portfolio to include all tiers and segments. In the coming months, we look forward to the
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availability of additional devices and baseband architectures that expand our business with Samsung to include additional PAs, incremental switch-based content, and new high-performance WiFi front ends.”
The Samsung GALAXY Note II features a 5.5” HD Super AMOLED screen, providing breathtaking visuals and crystal clear detail. Its 16:9 screen ratio ensures an immersive and enriched cinema- like video viewing experience, perfect for watching HD videos on-the-go. The GALAXY Note II also comes with a mighty 1.6GHz Quad-Core processor and HSPA Plus or 4G LTE connectivity to deliver easy multitasking, lightning-fast screen transitions, powerful browser performance, and minimal app load time.
It also has an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera and 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera with HD video recording capabilities. The Samsung GALAXY Note II is set to launch in October starting in major European, Asian, and Middle East markets.
RFMD enables Samsung with a broad range of 3G/4G front end solutions, including PowerSmart, 3G/4G power amplifiers, switches, and RFMD’s advanced power management solutions. RFMD supports Samsung across all leading baseband architectures.
RFMD’s PowerSmart power platforms deliver integration, design flexibility, and customisation, enabling smartphone manufacturers to rapidly deploy smartphone platforms across geographies and networks, regardless of mode or band specifications.
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