Gartner Dataquest has recognized RF Micro Devices as the world's seventh largest global wireless communications semiconductor supplier, based on revenue. According to an August 2004 report entitled, "Market Share: Wireless Communications Semiconductors, Worldwide, 2003," Gartner Dataquest estimated that RFMD held approximately 3.9 percent of the $16.2 billion global market for wireless communications semiconductors. The Gartner Dataquest research report also concluded that RF Micro Devices is the number one provider of power amplifiers (PAs) for wireless handsets based on 2003 revenues.
Eric Creviston, corporate vice president of wireless products at RF Micro Devices, said, "RF Micro Devices continues to grow as a wireless semiconductor supplier and take share in our core market of RF solutions for cellular handsets. Of note, we believe our number one market share in cellular PAs positions us extremely well to gain share in the synergistic market of GSM cellular transceivers."
In the cellular market, RFMD continues to introduce highly integrated PA products that offer customers increased functionality and provide the Company higher average selling prices (ASPs). Also within cellular, the Company has begun production shipments of its Polaris Total Radio transceiver to leading handset manufacturers.
In wireless connectivity, RFMD is ramping production shipments of its single-chip CMOS Bluetooth radio processors to a top-tier handset manufacturer and forecasts 100 percent sequential revenue growth in its Bluetooth product portfolio in the current quarter. In wireless LAN, RFMD continues to target gaming, network interface cards, notebooks, hand-held devices as well as PAs and front-end modules.
In infrastructure, the Company is currently sampling its GaAs driver amplifiers to customers and remains on track to sample gallium nitride (GaN) high power amplifiers to customers by the end of the fiscal year.
RF Micro Devices (now part of Qorvo) designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications products and applications. The Company is a leading supplier of power amplifiers, one of the most critical radio frequency (RF) components in cellular phones. RFMD's products are included primarily in cellular phones, base stations, wireless local area networks (WLANs), cable television modems and global positioning systems (GPS).