ighteen months. A 32-nm device will cost more than twice as much, be harder to implement and be even more likely to not work first time round introducing additional cost and time to market delay. 36 Fast Fourier and inverse fast Fourier transforms. 37 Finite impulse response filtering. Table 5.8 RF component and baseband vendor financial performance comparisons. Reproduced with permission of The Mobile World Balance Sheet Gross Operating Free Cash (Equity + Return on Debt to Revenue Margin Margin R&D/Sales CapEx Liabilities) Net Equity Equity Net Debt Equity US$000 US$000 US$000 US$000 Anadigics 216 714 35.0% -0.2% 23.1% 233 812 202 964 -97 129 -47.9% Avago 796 000 49.0% 22.3% 13.4% 2 157 000 1 505 000 27.6% -561 000 -37.3% Broadcom 6 818 319 51.8% 15.9% 25.8% 73 924 1 296 902 7 944 310 5 826 089 18.6% -1 960 697 -33.7% Intel 43 623 000 66.1% 36.5% 15.1% 63 138 000 49 638 000 23.5% -14677000 -29.6% Mediatek 3 916 048 46.4% 23.7% 17.8% 4 771 905 3 860 952 27.3% -2 887 313 -74.8% Qualcomm 11 669 000 30.1% 22.5% 1 291 22 736 15.7% -18018 -79.2% RF Micro 1 070 732 37.4% 14.3% 13.1% 1 053 352 658 364 17.4% -92 167 -14.0% Devices Skyworks 1 161 831 43.3% 20.2% 12.1% 1 614 076 411 407 12.1% -425 645 -30.2% 3 012 825 -126.3% 108 667 Ericsson Triquint 878 703 39.9% 13.2% 14.7% - 978 102 834 019 22.7% -223656 -26.8% Total/ 73 163 172 62.5% 26.0% 17.5% Weighted Average Wireless User Hardware The use of dedicated ASICS therefore may be technically efficient but increasingly eco- nomically risky and dependent on achieving a stable standards environment, unlikely unless LTE advanced standards become finalised rather faster than present progress would suggest. As a result, there are opportunities to optimise DSP architectures to support the specific requirements of LTE when implemented as a multimode device with backwards compatibility to present 3G and 2G layer one handsets. The multimode 'problem' is therefore essentially solved or at least almost solved. This highlights the need for parallel progress with a solution for the 