According to the latest market research study released by Technavio, the global GaN radio frequency devices market is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 19% during the forecast period 2016-2020.
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Technavio research analysts categorize the global GaN radio frequency devices market based on sector applications:
Global GaN radio frequency devices market share by sector applications 2015
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Cellular Infrastructure |
54.60% |
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Defense |
36.40% |
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CATV |
4.00% |
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Others |
5.00% |
Source: Technavio
The top three revenue contributing product segments are discussed below:
Cellular infrastructure
The global GaN RF devices market in the cellular infrastructure sector was valued at over $161 million in 2015 and will grow at a CAGR of about 20% by 2020. The development of 5G and the emergence of IoT will boost the market growth for GaN RF devices in the cellular infrastructure sector. This will also drive the demand for high-power performing and efficient devices to support network services in the market. The growing deployment of LTE networks in China and other countries has increased mobile data use worldwide. The vendors are developing technologies that help in reducing cost and network disruption.
“The companies are looking for higher power front-haul and backhaul solutions that will support 5G network systems. GaN RF helps vendors to extract more capacity from the existing LTE spectrum allocations and minimizing additional spectrum purchase and cost. Their use in base station power amplifiers with higher power density, increases efficiency over a wider bandwidth and support high carrier frequencies in the range of 400 MHz to 100 GHz. These power amplifiers handle higher millimeter wave frequencies and supports greater video bandwidth at higher frequencies. These amplifiers offer a power density 7X, at about 5-12 W/mm providing higher levels of efficiency and performance,” says Chetan M, a lead analyst at Technavio for research on semiconductor equipment.
Defense sector
The global GaN RF devices market in the defense sector was valued at almost $108 million in 2015 and will grow at a CAGR of about 15% by 2020. The extensive use of this technology for military communications, radar, and electronic warfare in the defense sector will propel the growth of this market segment during the forecast period. The excellent performance of GaN and design simplification is allowing the development of new products that offers better functionality of devices like higher bandwidths, delivering excellent RF power outputs, efficiency, linearity, and gain. This technology is used for high-level military applications like electronic warfare, which offer improved solutions for electronic surveillance, countermeasures, and cover multi-octave bandwidths. Phased-array radars use GaN RF technology to ensure higher power density and integration that eliminates the need for a distortion limiter, reducing component count and freeing up area on the printed circuit board.
Cable TV
The global GaN RF devices market in CATV was valued at around $12 million in 2015 and will grow at a CAGR of over 24% by 2020. These devices offer power density and efficiency to consumers of the cable TV amplification market. The extensive use of these devices to increase the bandwidth capacity for viewing digital content on television and stream content from the internet, will drive this segment’s growth over the period of next four years. The compulsory use of STBs devices improving the picture quality, advent of HDTVs, and multiple TV sets at homes is increasing the requirement for GaN RF devices that provide higher bandwidth capacities.
The top leading vendors operating in the global GaN radio frequency devices market are:
- GAN Systems
- Infineon Technologies
- NXP Semiconductor
- Qorvo
- Wolfspeed
Other prominent vendors in the market include Ampleon Netherlands B.V., Avago Technologies, Efficient Power Conversion, Fujitsu Semiconductor, INTEGRA Technologies, MACOM, Microsemi, Northrop Grumman, NTT Advanced Technology, RFHIC, Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, ST-Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, United Monolithic Semiconductors, and WIN Semiconductors.
A more detailed analysis is available in the Technavio report titled, ‘Global GaN Radio Frequency Devices Market 2016-2020’. Technavio also customizes reports by other regions and specific segments upon request.
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