Gallium Arsenide Market Still Expected to Break $3 Billion in 2006
Source/Type: News - Staff reports

Author: CompoundSemi News Staff

April 6, 2006... Compound Semiconductor market analysis company, Strategy Analytics of Boston, Massachusetts USA, has reiterated their prediction that the gallium arsenide (GaAs) market will break the $3 billion per year barrier in 2006. The company indicated that the market is in line with their previously released, long-term forecast report for the gallium arsenide market, which predicts a healthy 36% increase in total sales revenue for the industry from 2005 to 2010. The company sited the growth of the demand for multi-mode and multi-band cellular handsets for much of the increase. According to the report and their latest assertions this growth will help to offset the alternative service provider (ASP) erosion.

"It's not just a case of increasing handset shipments which helps to increase GaAs device demand from the handset market over the next five years," observed Asif Anwar, Director of the Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies service. "2006 and beyond will see the market shift towards EDGE/GPRS-based and WCDMA/EDGE multi-mode, multi-band architectures. This will actually increase the number of HBT and pHEMT die going into increasingly complex RF front-end module solutions." Company News Release

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