From a Low-Cost Consumer Market to High-Capacity Non-Residential: What's Next for Small Cell Semiconductors?

CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile Experts LLC has released this year's update regarding the semiconductor for small cells market. The overall mobile infrastructure market remains lumpy, and the system of semiconductor suppliers are still recovering from the relative slowdowns in the past couple of years.

The general semiconductor market is quickly consolidating. Mega-mergers dot the landscape from digital processors and analog RF.  While the semiconductor market for small cells is expected to experience a higher growth than the overall semiconductor market, it is still very small in dollar terms with respect to the overall market.

"With a backdrop of mergers and acquisitions quickly reshaping the overall semiconductor industry, 2016 marks a major inflection point for the semiconductor market for small cells as one of the leading systems-on-chip (SoC) vendors exited the market," shared Mobile Experts Senior Analyst Kyung Mun.  "This market rationalization, we believe, lays a stable market condition upon which the remaining players will continue investments in future innovations, including the use of unlicensed and shared spectrum."

According to Mobile Experts, the strongest semiconductor growth will come from components that scale up with MIMO and additional frequency bands, such as filters, transceivers, and amplifiers.

"As small cell units support more bands, higher carrier aggregation and MIMO configurations are expected to increase faster than the system unit shipments.  We expect the semiconductor market for small cells to grow at 29% CAGR over the next five years, to represent over $1.1B market opportunity in 2021," Senior Analyst Kyung Mun commented.

The detailed research in the study reveals that outdoor small cells are driving the market.  And as such, tighter or more stringent spec requirements on oscillators, power amplifiers, and transceivers are demanded by system OEMs. The report explains market dynamics and outlook for the component supply chain for small cells.  The semiconductor market for small cells represents a bright spot in an overall depressed mobile infrastructure market that is transitioning to 5G. 

The report covers the following companies actively competing in this space:

About Mobile Experts LLC:

Mobile Experts provides insightful market analysis for the mobile infrastructure and mobile handset markets.  Our analysts are true Experts, who remain focused on topics where each analyst has 20 years of experience or more.  Research topics center on technology introduction for radio frequency (RF) and communications innovation.  Recent publications focus on Semiconductors for Small Cells, 5G, Health + Fitness IoT Devices, DAS, Smart Utility Meters, IoT, RF Front Ends for Mobile Devices,  Small Cells, Carrier Wi-Fi and LTE-U, Enterprise Mobile Infrastructure, Macro Base Station Transceivers, Semiconductors for RRH, Backhaul for Small Cells, and Virtualized RAN.

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