TAIPEI, Taiwan — Airoha Technology is expected to benefit from rising demand for power amplifiers amid smartphone users’ migration to 4G services and order allocation from MediaTek Inc., which holds about 25 percent of Airoha. Analysts say the company is also a key beneficiary of the market’s wider adoption of Bluetooth system-on-chip (SoC) solutions and increasing awareness of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Airoha aims at providing a wide range of high performance and cost effective RF/mixed signal IC components and Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) SoC solutions that include cell phone power amplifier (PA), RF T/R switch (T/R Switch), low-noise amplifier (LNA), digital TV and set-top box DVB-S/S2 tuner, WiFi transceiver and Bluetooth SoC.
The company’s products have been widely incorporated in cell phones, digital TVs and set-top boxes, Bluetooth HID devices, audio accessories, and wearables.
The company’s Bluetooth accessory applications including headset, speaker, keyboard, mouse, remote control, and 3D glasses. Its Bluetooth audio SoC features AiroStereo, AiroShare and AiroWoofer, and its SoC for Bluetooth selfie stick occupied more than 60 percent market share in the global market.
Meanwhile, shares of the company surged on July 8 on its debut on the Emerging Stock Market, which is a preparatory board for the nation’s two main bourses. The stock closed 38.71 percent higher yesterday at NT$215 and at one point moved to NT$263.15, Last year, Airoha reported profit of NT$444 million (US$14.22 million), or NT$9.16 per share, with revenue of NT$3.64 billion.
