Femtocells vs Voice Over WiFi Cellphones

PicoChip has developed baseband processors for femtocell base stations. Femtocells have the potential to compete with VoFi (Voice over WiFi) and  reduce the demand for Wi-Fi cellphones.

Chris Taylor, Director of the RF & Wireless Component service said that he believe femtocells will attract wireless operators.

Asif Anwar, Director of the Strategy Analytics Compound Semiconductor Service, said that the handset market shows that GaAs can compete against silicon technologies on cost, but the low transmit power of femtocells suggests that this market will probably use SiGe and LDMOS transistor-based PAs initially, eventually shifting to transceivers with on-chip CMOS PAs.”

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