Strategy Analytics Blogs Posts from Strategy Analytics Blogs http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/ en-gb Strategy Analytics Inc. http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ CMOS PA Acquisition Binge On April 30, 2013, Avago Technologies Limited announced that it had acquired Javelin Semiconductor for an undisclosed sum.  Javelin (Austin, TX) supplie http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=f74ca7b6-c7f3-4a0a-b32f-033462e8ae81 Fri, 03 May 2013 23:44:00 GMT Does Qualcomm's RF360 Mean The Demise of GaAs? Qualcomm’s new “RF360” family of RF front-end cellphones products includes multiband, multimode CMOS power amplifiers capable of transmit http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=29bfa4b2-a2cd-41fc-96c9-680f55a34518 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:04:00 GMT The First Commercial Cellular Transceiver with On-chip PAs On 27 July, 2012, Intel announced the SMARTi UE2p, the first commercial cellular transceiver with on-chip PAs.  Intel has confirmed th http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=339fc399-45ab-465f-b946-0d45a49d8305 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:22:00 GMT New RF Products Up but Sales Down in Q1 '12 RF & wireless component suppliers announced a blizzard of new products in Q1 ’12, many coming out during two of the largest industry trade shows, t http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=11755d95-aee7-4077-b268-d1a1de6c9142 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:52:00 GMT ST-Ericsson Responds to Dimming Prospects with More Cost-Cutting, Focus on New Technology Opinions vary on whether ST-Ericsson can survive in its present form, but the latest financial results are not encouraging. In the co http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=f12af94d-c3e2-45ab-9da9-8f87f7d9f8e6 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:33:00 GMT Fujitsu CMOS PA Marks Potential Shift in PA Market Late in 2011, Fujitsu announced the MB86C83, a CMOS PA that has the potential to firmly establish CMOS PAs in UMTS devices a http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=47cf67c2-8a50-4ece-b4df-ab3fe944f622 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:26:00 GMT M&As Up in 2011 Merger and acquisition activity in the RF & wireless component industry increased in Q1 2011, with Qualcomm’s proposed acquisition of Atheros for $ http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=5c253c84-58c6-43ac-8f3d-57e8d7be5084 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:54:00 GMT LTE Will Drive $5 Billion of Terminal Radio Components in 2011, Far Surpassing WiMAX Until recently WiMAX was doing remarkably well. Now the momentum in mobile broadband has shifted quickly to LTE, which will now surp http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=e668baa7-1f91-49ce-9d98-efb8818c6b4c Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:26:00 GMT FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White Space Spectrum In a five to zero vote, the US FCC approved the use of so-called “white space spectrum,” which consists of spaces between TV channels and unused http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=56014478-d528-4b50-b53f-5dbd072b07ee Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:10:00 GMT RF & Wireless Components and Macroeconomic Trends Profits in the RF / wireless component industry reported during Q1 ’10 strengthened to the highest level since 2005, marking a “V” http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=aae31905-3a36-4849-9a6e-5fc3be3e3b88 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:06:00 GMT Update on Short-Range Gigabit Radio Last week the IEEE hosted an informative panel discussion at MTTS 2010 in Anaheim titled “The Challenges, Competitions and Future Prospect of 60 GHz&rd http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=ff54d009-82e8-4aab-8bc2-394d2ae3df6a Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:06:00 GMT Will Qualcomm Monopolize Basebands and Chipsets? The cellular chipset and baseband markets have gone through rapid changes in the past three years, with Qualcomm emerging as the clear leader ahead of MediaTek, http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=c09e9087-ea10-4103-b543-dbdfbb1e394f Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:03:00 GMT Fujitsu's Freescale Lineage Transceiver Freescale sold off their Tempe, AZ transceiver design team and IP to Fujitsu in April 2009, but the companies kept this relatively quiet until recently. On S http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=68a28e93-eb4f-41f6-b9ae-ec9a74032b33 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:11:00 GMT Peregrine Semi Shipments Reflect Softer Demand for Handsets Peregrine Semiconductor announced on September 15 '09 that it had shipped its 500 millionth UltraCMOS (CMOS on SoS / silicon-on-sapphire) integrated cir http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=83bc085c-0d40-48db-8f78-9ca394928760 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:00 GMT Freescale Continues to Shrink Freescale Semiconductor posted its Q3 '09 results on July 24 for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. Sales dropped two percent to $824 million sequentially, and 44 http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/RFC/post.aspx?id=9a4b6f8d-fb55-4190-9002-bf17e5b0665f Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:09:00 GMT