Pat Hindle, MWJ Editor

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Yole Développement (Yole) just published a new report on the GaN market. According to Yole, the overall GaN RF market is expected to reach USD 2 billion by 2024, driven by two main applications: telecom infrastructure and defense as noted by Ezgi Dogmus, PhD. Technology & Market Analyst at Yole Développement (Yole).

At Yole Développement (Yole), analysts expect the radar market to reach US$8.6 billion by 2025, at a 2015 CAGR of 15.6%. Market growth depends on the specific radar frequency, explains the market research & strategy consulting company. Read this market analysis by Yole.

Industry professionals engaged with Keysight technical experts and executives, and experience live demonstrations May 14 in San Francisco for the first ever Keysight World Americas event. Check out this summary of the event.

The global robo-taxi market is projected to experience huge growth from 2,024 units in 2020 to 3,830,912 units by 2030, at a CAGR of 112.67% according to MarketsandMarkets. The majority of the growth is expected at the end of this time period. 

We recently were introduced Uhnder coming out of stealth mode as a semiconductor startup headquartered in Austin, TX supplying the first all digital automotive radar chips.

The biggest hit at MWC19 was flexible display technology that was shown off in 2 foldable phones, the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X, and in a wearable smartwatch phone from ZTE, the nubia Alpha. Read this review of the event.

Interview with professor Ted Rappaport about the deployment of 5G mmWave technology.

Canalys has been providing some nice, detailed data since the beginning of the year on smartphone shipments around the world for 2018. I have summarized their last few reports here.

According to Yole Développement, the RF GaN industry is showing high growth with a 23% CAGR between 2017 and 2023 driven mostly by telecom and defense applications. By the end of 2017, the total RF GaN market was close to US$380 million and 2023 should reach more than US$1.3 billion with an evolving industrial landscape. 

With the implementation of 4G, many companies took liberties in saying they had 4G networks even though they did not meet the performance specifications of the 3GPP standard just so they could be first to market (or at least an early provider). This is already happening now with 5G.