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“Qualcomm and Murata are today leading the RF filters market,” asserts Stéphane Elisabeth, Technology & Cost Analyst from System Plus Consulting. “In the smartphone industry, within the filter market segment, the two companies are today facing off, and competition is fierce.” Read this analysis of the RF Front End filter market evolution.

The GSA 5G Ecosystem – July 2020 report announced that 5G devices have continued to climb swiftly, accompanied again this month by a continued rapid rise in the number of 5G devices that are commercially available.

Just last week, 3GPP completed 5G NR Release 16 — the second 5G standard that will greatly expand the reach of 5G to new services, spectrum, and deployments. This is a major milestone for the entire mobile and broader vertical ecosystem, as this new set of 5G specifications unlocks many new 5G opportunities beyond the traditional mobile broadband services.

While 5G subscription growth has slowed from the pandemic in some markets, this is outweighed by other markets where it is accelerating, leading Ericsson to raise their forecast of global 5G subscriptions at the end of 2020. Read this summary of their report.

This is a summary taken from the recent release by System Plus Consulting’s partner, Yole Développement (Yole). Yole projects an 8% CAGR between 2018 and 2025 for the RF front-end market. At US$15 billion in 2018, the industry is projected to reach US$25.8 billion by 2025, according to Yole.

In the Report and Order document FCC 16-89, the FCC adopted new technical and service rules mmWave band devices that operate under Part 30 of the FCC rules.

A few newer tools in the 5G toolbox that will be implemented this year and beyond will help enable the rollout of 5G networks include Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB), Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) and Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN).