GaAs opportunities and a route to survival

摘要

A duet of papers given at Compound Semiconductor Mantech in New Orleans starts with RF Micro Devices' Paul Augustine's overview of trends and opportunities for GaAs semiconductors in handsets. Following on, Freescale's Chuck Weitzel agrees GaAs will continue its handset PA dominance and capture sockets in wireless base stations at higher frequency applications. But Strategic Analytics' Asif Anwar urges suppliers to prepare for lower demand. Only with multiple capabilities, addressing several end-markets will the future for GaAs prove successful.