Despite pandemic, GaAs device market bounces back

23 July 2021 Despite pandemic, GaAs device market bounces back After 2019 saw the first decline in more than a decade, market revenue for RF gallium arsenide (GaAs) devices returned to growth in 2020 and will approach $9.5bn by 2025, according to the Strategy Analytics Advanced Semiconductor Applications (ASA) report 'RF GaAs Device Technology and Market Forecast: 2020 ࢀ" 2025', which identifies 5G devices and networks as the primary driver. Wider deployment of millimeter-wave-capable 5G handsets and networks will be the main contributors to future RF GaAs device revenue growth. "In the early part of 2020, things looked pretty serious…