The market for gallium-arsenide technology — spurred by the mobile phone industry and the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — could ascend to US$3 billion this year. Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that GaAs device revenues will grow by 36 percent over 2005 to 2010, breaking the $3 billion barrier in 2006. Overall, the firm said, market growth will be derived from wireless markets, with cellular handsets as the primary driver, during the next five years.
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DARPA, Mobile Phone Makers Stoke Demand for Gallium Arsenide Devices
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski May 13, 2006 01:30 AMThe market for gallium-arsenide technology — spurred by the mobile phone industry and the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — could ascend to US$3 billion this year. Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that GaAs device revenues will grow by 36 percent over 2005 to 2010, breaking the $3 billion barrier in 2006. Overall, the firm said, market growth will be derived from wireless markets, with cellular handsets as the primary driver, during the next five years.