Transceiver Design Companies -- who is left ?

Who is left doing Cellular Transceivers ?

I know NXP, Infineon, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Skyworks (almost dead!), who else ?

WLAN Transceivers ?

I know Atheros, Broadcom, who else ?

Please help with this ! Looking for more major companies...

Thanks !

there are some do the PA's parts like anadigics , triquint , avago
there is a small one called sitelsemi doing DECT TRX

khouly

Endwave.

please only silicon companies, but GaAs.

there are alot doing GaAs and MMIC ,
endwave is great

in cmos Nordic , also is working and TI

khouly

Sirenza, Sequoia, Sirific, Quorum, SiliconLabs

Freescale

Dave

silicon labs wireless team is now belong to NXP

khouly

looks like not many jobs, companies left in silicon transceiver design for wireless.

I'd have to disagree with that. If you are willing to move, then there are job's available. Keep in mind that the population of engineers is pretty small as well.

Dave

where are the hot areas ?

the population of engineers doing this type of work and interested in this work ?
is that you mean ?

so is there a shortage of these types of engineers ?

yeah i agree RF designers are few , not soo much

khouly

Hot areas in the US for Transceivers would be (In no particular order)

Silicon Valley
San Diego
Austin
Washington DC Area (Defense related)

There is a nice website at www.indeed.com where you can set up a job search and get an rss feed of the search. right now, I've got searches set up for Maryland, Virginia, San Diego, and San Jose. I'm searching for RF and Wireless in the job description, so it's pretty broad. Here are the job's that match this criteria that have come up in the past week or so. There is probably some overlap of these numbers, so I don't think these are all separate jobs.

Maryland:16
Virginia: 11
San Diego : 32
San Jose : 21
Austin : 0 .

Maryland and Virginia pick up the Washington DC area. Austin is looking pretty sparse right now, and I don't have a search set up for Phoenix.


As far as the number available, at both my current employer and my previous one, we were continuously looking for experiences RFIC engineers without much luck, so I'd have to say that the qualified population is pretty small. I'm not in one of those areas, though, so that was also a problem.

Dave

why do you think there is such a demand and is there enough demand/standards for one to remain employed in this field for a while ?

Well, on the demand side, there were ~ 1 billion handset's sold last year. Thats a huge market, which will attract companies like flies to honey. In the next few years, the transition from 3g to 4g networks will start, and that's where you can come into a market and make some money dislodging entrenched encumbents. Each new company that enters this space will need an RFIC design team. Several of the companies listed in this thread are startups. Some will fail, and some will succeed.

Look at the volume of 802.11 networks. Each one of those has several radio's on it. Same comments apply. 802.11b/g/n are new tweaks on the previous generation, and need to be designed and implemented. 802.16e is another new network.

On the defense industry side, the good guys need radios to listen to what the bad guys are saying. They need their own radios that the bad guy's can listen to.

RF and wireless technology has become deeply embedded into the fabric of the world. As long at that's the case, then RF Transceivers will continue to be designed and built.

Notice I'm not saying that you will always be able to find a job doing transceiver design, but I don't see the job's disappearing anytime soon. They may not be where you want to live, but that's another issue.

Dave

Whether they actually succeed in doing 4G is another story.

I wonder if video over cell phones and WLAN will ever take off.

There have been video phones since the 50's and 60's and they never took off.

Oh, I suspect that 4 g phones will roll out. Probably not until 2012 or so, but they will get there. What they look like and what they do is up in the air, though.

If you thought people talking on the phone weren't paying attention to what they are doing, just wait until there are 2 way video calls. :-(

Dave

...Skyworks (almost dead)...

Is it true and why? I know they are hiring now and I recently had an interview with them.

RFDave said:

Hot areas in the US for Transceivers would be (In no particular order)

Silicon Valley
San Diego
Austin
Washington DC Area (Defense related)

There is a nice website at www.indeed.com where you can set up a job search and get an rss feed of the search. right now, I've got searches set up for Maryland, Virginia, San Diego, and San Jose. I'm searching for RF and Wireless in the job description, so it's pretty broad. Here are the job's that match this criteria that have come up in the past week or so. There is probably some overlap of these numbers, so I don't think these are all separate jobs.

Maryland:16
Virginia: 11
San Diego : 32
San Jose : 21
Austin : 0 .

Maryland and Virginia pick up the Washington DC area. Austin is looking pretty sparse right now, and I don't have a search set up for Phoenix.


As far as the number available, at both my current employer and my previous one, we were continuously looking for experiences RFIC engineers without much luck, so I'd have to say that the qualified population is pretty small. I'm not in one of those areas, though, so that was also a problem.

Dave

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Hi, Dave,
Are there any jobs for RF PA designer in your mentioned areas?
Thank you!

Probably there are. I'm not looking right now, so I"m not really paying attention.

Dave