Significant growth at Chelmsford, Mass.-based Hittite Microwave has pushed the company into the top 10 suppliers of Gallium Arsenide chips for the electronics industry, as Sony, NEC and Eudyna Devices all slipped in the rankings, a new report shows. Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, meantime, gained market share. Mitsubishi was the Japanese market leader last year in the GaAs device market, and saw “significant growth” for its mobile business as it led supply of power amplifiers to the 3G cellular handset market, according to the report by Strategy Analytics.
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Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski August 31, 2006 04:00 AMSignificant growth at Chelmsford, Mass.-based Hittite Microwave has pushed the company into the top 10 suppliers of Gallium Arsenide chips for the electronics industry, as Sony, NEC and Eudyna Devices all slipped in the rankings, a new report shows. Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, meantime, gained market share. Mitsubishi was the Japanese market leader last year in the GaAs device market, and saw “significant growth” for its mobile business as it led supply of power amplifiers to the 3G cellular handset market, according to the report by Strategy Analytics.