Global RF Components Market for Consumer Electronics worth $17,123 Million by 201

Thursday 6 September 2012, Amsterdam

RF technology is known since decades but its application in the field of consumer electronics has picked up pace off late. It is due to increasing mobility and communication devices and its usages in different associated devices. Introduction of set top boxes for HD view, iPads, iPhones, and the other devices in recent times have helped the industry to introduce new type of RF components design and architecture over the previous years.

Throwing light on current architecture, the low noise amplifier in a consumer electronics product operates at around 1.9 GHz; while, Global positioning system (GPS) entail carrier frequencies range between 1,227.60 MHz and 1,575.42 MHz. Satellite broadcasting in the C-band involves 4 GHz uplink and 6 GHz downlink systems. Due to the swift development of wireless communication, compact amplifier, filter, oscillator, and mixer circuits are designed and positioned in service at frequencies above 1 GHz.

Now the companies are settling down to 4G (LTE), which is an advanced version of 3G. It requires working at the frequencies greater than 2.5 GHz and LTE cannot not be supported by the silicon or silicon-doped components. Due to this barrier, players are working on this aspect and designing the components by using the other materials such as GaAs (Gallium Arsenide), SiGe (Silicon Germanium), etc., which is also expected to increase the market size of RF components.