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As 5G Looms in Late 2018, There’s ‘Good Activity Still’ in 4G, Says Analog Devices

As the industry awaits the market deployment of 5G, there’s “good activity still on 4G,” said Analog Devices CEO Vincent Roche on a Tuesday earnings call. With the “heavy activity on 4.5G,” and 5G in market “trials right now,” Roche…

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thinks “the boundaries between 4.5G and 5G are blurring to some extent,” he said. “Indications” are strong the 5G market will “start to ramp” in late 2018 into 2019, and “peak to 2020,” he said. With the challenges of “getting 5G into play,” and with the increasing “demands for mobile data, we're still working hard on the classical problems of integration, design agility, power consumption,” he said.