元器件交易网讯  4月30日消息，据外媒报道，射频芯片制造商RF Micro Devices预计第一季度收入将超过分析师预期，它预计今年下半年智能手机销量的增长将会拉动公司收入增长。

　　RF Micro的客户包括苹果和三星，在其公布了第四季度利润好于预期后，股票价格盘后交易上涨约7.5%。 

　　RF Micro CEO Robert Bruggeworth称，公司也受益于物联网，指的是机器对机器连接，允许有线和无线网络进行交互。

　　业界推测苹果将推出可穿戴设备比如智能手表。

　　互联网连接和社交媒体需求的增加将推动移动设备的销量，这将需要更多的射频芯片。

　　爱立信报告称，2013年-2019年，全球智能手机出货量将翻三倍达到56亿部。

　　RF Micro 2月份打算16亿美元的价格收购竞争对手TriQuint半导体公司，这个交易预计在下半年完成。

　　RF Micro的射频芯片也用于笔记本电脑、平板以及雷达设备，预计6月份其第一季度财报每股收益将调整到17美分，收入达到3.05亿美元。

　　汤森路透(Thomson Reuters)分析师此前预计，第一季度每股收益11美分，收入2.77亿美元。

　　RF Micro第四季度的净损失压缩到100万美元。每股收益12美分，收入降了8.8%，为2.56亿美元。这高于分析师预计每股利润9美分，总收入2.555亿美元。

　　（元器件交易网董蕾 译）

　　外媒原文如下：

　　RF Micro Devices Inc, a maker of chips that connect mobile devices to networks, forecast quarterly revenue above analysts' estimates and said it expected rising smartphone sales to fuel growth in the second half of the year.

　　Shares of RF Micro, whose customers include Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co, rose about 7.5 percent in extended trading after the chipmaker also posted a better-than-expected profit for the fourth quarter.

　　"In terms of timing, we are beginning to support the volume ramps of many of this year's most popular devices and we expect this to accelerate into the September quarter," RF Micro Chief Executive Robert Bruggeworth said on a post-earnings call.

　　Apple is expected to launch the next version of its iPhone in September, the month in which the company usually introduces the latest versions of its products.

　　RF Micro is also positioned to benefit from the "Internet of Things", Bruggeworth said, referring to machine-to-machine connectivity that allows devices on both wired and wireless networks to interact.

　　There is also speculation that Apple will launch wearable devices such as smartwatches, after Chief Executive Tim Cook spoke about "new product categories" for 2014.

　　Increasing demand for internet connectivity and social media while on the move is driving sales of mobile devices, which use more radio frequency chips than basic phones.

　　Smartphone users globally are expected to triple to 5.6 billion by 2019 from 2013, according to a report by network equipment maker Ericsson. (r.reuters.com/byd27v)

　　RF Micro said in February that it would buy rival Triquint Semiconductor Inc for about $1.6 billion to boost its offering in both phone and wireless network markets. The deal is expected to close in the second half.

　　STRONG FORECAST

　　RF Micro, whose radio frequency chips are also used in notebooks and tablets as well as radar equipment, forecast adjusted earnings of about 17 cents per share and revenue of $305 million for the first quarter ending June.

　　Analysts on average were expecting earnings of 11 cents per share on revenue of $277 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

　　RF Micro's net loss narrowed to $1 million, or break even per share, in the fourth quarter ended March 29 from $16 million, or 6 cents per share, a year earlier.

　　The company, which counts Samsung as its biggest customer, earned 12 cents per share, excluding items.

　　Revenue fell 8.8 percent to $256 million.

　　Analysts on average had expected a profit of 9 cents per share on revenue of $255.5 million.

　　Greensboro, North Carolina-based RF Micro's shares closed at $8.09 on the Nasdaq on Tuesday.