Power amps with higher switch, filter, and duplexer content shipped into leading LTE smartphones in support of higher band counts in 2015, leading to a nice bump in the PA market.
Through 2020, higher-content PAs will increase in volume ash LTE grows, however, pricing pressure will limit growth in the PA market in revenue terms.
This forecast provides unit and dollar shipment estimates for seven classifications of PAs from 2012 to 2015, with a forecast through 2020 based on expected growth of mobile device shipments.