Technavio, a leading market research company has written a report on the Global Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) RF Filter market. The report presents a corresponding detailed analysis of the major vendors that are developing BAW RF filters in the Americas, APAC, Europe, and the rest of the world (ROW). In addition, it presents a detailed discussion of the major drivers influencing the growth of the market.
According to Technavio, the global bulk acoustic wave RF filter market has high entry barriers due to the substantial capital investments required in research, innovation, and development of advanced RF components. In addition to the high barrier to entry there are big vendors such as Avago Technologies and Qorvo who are already well established in the space. In order to survive in this competitive environment, the vendors need to distinguish their product and service offerings through clear and unique value propositions.
The competition among the existing vendors is expected to intensify during the forecast period, primarily because of the creation of bigger entities through large M&A activities such as the creation of Qorvo, the new name given to the alliance of RF Micro Devices and TriQuint Semiconductor.
The Top Five global vendors in the bulk acoustic wave RF filter market are as follows:
Avago Technologies
Avago Technologies was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Singapore. This company develops and supplies a wide range of semiconductor devices. It adopts product differentiation as a strategy to gain a competitive edge over its competitors. Their RF components range from power amplifiers, noise amplifiers, and radio frequency integrated circuits to filters, duplexers, and multiplexers.
Qorvo
Qorvo was formed following the merger of TriQuint Semiconductor and RF Micro Devices. This company provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure, and aerospace and defense applications. It operates design, sales, and manufacturing centers throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. They caters their products to OEMs and ODMs worldwide. Their R&D activities focus on enhancing the performance, size, and cost of their products in their customers’ systems. They have been focusing on their processes to improve design and manufacturing processes, and fostering innovation in fundamental research areas including materials, circuit design, simulation and modelling, and device packaging and testing. This company holds around 1,000 patents.
TDK
TDK focuses on key emerging markets in APAC to ensure sustainable revenue growth and improve their profit margins over the long term. In addition, it adopts a low-cost differentiation strategy and provides RF devices at more competitive prices than other vendors. They offers a wide range of RF components such as RF chip antennas, baluns, couplers, and duplexers.
Skywork Solutions
Skyworks Solutions was established in 2002 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, US. It offers amplifiers, attenuators, battery chargers, circulators, demodulators, duplexers, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, and infrastructure RF subsystems. Their other offerings include isolators, LED drivers, mixers, modulators, optocouplers, opt isolators, phase shifters, phase-locked loops power dividers, voltage regulators, combiners, receivers, switches, power management devices, and technical ceramics.
Akoustis Technologies
Akoustis Technologies is a pre-revenue startup founded in 2014. They have patented their BAW filter, which is made of single crystal piezoelectric materials. They claims that their BAW filter provides 30% better performance than incumbent thin film technology. Their press releases indicate that they will start generating revenue by 2017.
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