5G Small Base Station FPGA Chip Industry Analysis：the global market size is projected to reach USD 9.54 billion by 2030

According to the new market research report “5G Small Base Station FPGA Chip - Global Market Share and Ranking, Overall Sales and Demand Forecast 2025-2031”, published by QYResearch, the global 5G Small Base Station FPGA Chip market size is projected to reach USD 9.54 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 25.6% during the forecast period.

• Global 5G Small Base Station FPGA Chip MarketSize(US$ Million), 2019-2030

Source: QYResearch, "5G Small Base Station FPGA Chip - Global Market Share and Ranking, Overall Sales and Demand Forecast 2025-2031”

• Global 5G Small Base Station FPGA Chip Top3Players Ranking and Market Share (Ranking is based on the revenue of 2023, continually updated)

Source: QYResearch, "5G Small Base Station FPGA Chip - Global Market Share and Ranking, Overall Sales and Demand Forecast 2025-2031”

According to QYResearch Top Players Research Center, the global key manufacturers of 5G Small Base Station FPGA Chip include Intel(Altera), AMD (Xilinx), etc. In 2023, the global top three players had a share approximately 98.0% in terms of revenue.

Market Drivers:

FPGA is a semi-customized circuit, mainly used in application-specific integrated circuits, and has an irreplaceable position in aerospace/defense, consumer electronics, electronic communications and other fields. Among the downstream applications of FPGA, communication occupies the largest market segment. 5G base stations are a critical part of the overall infrastructure of the 5G ecosystem. The digital front-ends of 5G base station wireless units are based on FPGAs as they can be used to quickly implement and update new network routing architectures and algorithms in the field. The reasons for the increasing demand for FPGA market from 5G base stations are as follows:

1. Due to the substantial increase in the number of 5G channels, the usage of FPGA in a single station has increased accordingly. The increase in the number of communication base stations has led to an increase in the use of FPGA components. The number of base stations laid in the initial stage of 5G has increased year-on-year. On the other hand, due to the rapid attenuation of 5G signals, there is a huge demand for small base stations. The increase in FPGA usage in single base stations has driven the overall increase in FPGA communications market usage. Due to the high concurrent processing requirements of 5G Massive MIMO, the FPGA usage of a single base station is expected to increase from 2-3 blocks in the 4G period to 4-5 blocks in the 5G period, which will drive the overall FPGA usage.
2. China’s 5G commercialization progress leads the world, and my country’s large-scale capital expenditures for each generation of mobile communication technology are generally concentrated in the first few years of commercialization. Therefore, the current FPGA will occupy a more important position than in the 4G era.
3. Due to the higher frequency band of 5G applications, the number of 5G base stations may reach 1.5 times that of 4G. In addition, as millimeter wave technology matures in the "second half of 5G" after 2022, the number of small base stations is expected to reach tens of millions.
4. The business scenarios that 5G needs to meet will far exceed those of 1G~4G. 5G equipment will face more complex physical protocols and algorithms, and will have higher requirements for logical control and interface speed.
5. The degree of localization of the semiconductor industry chain is low, and the process of independent and controllable hardware is difficult to stop. Domestic products should strengthen themselves. From the perspective of the industry chain, the current degree of autonomy and control in the hardware industry chain is low, especially in the field of high-end semiconductor equipment and materials. In the future, the advancement of the domestic substitution process in the upstream and downstream of the industry chain will also help accelerate the development of domestic FPGAs.

Restraint:

R1: Industry barriers. For new entrants, they face multiple challenges such as technical barriers, talent barriers, financial barriers, experience barriers and industrial chain barriers. There is a large gap between the technical level and comprehensive strength of domestic enterprises and leading international enterprises. New entrants are constantly pouring in, and competition is becoming increasingly fierce. High-end 5G small base station FPGA chip talents are scarce.

R2: The hardware structure is complex and the yield rate is low. FPGA is an industry with high technical barriers. The hardware structure is complex and the yield rate is low. As the density of FPGA chips becomes higher and higher, collaborative research and development of software and hardware poses greater difficulties to design companies. . Due to the late start, product iteration and optimization require long-term accumulation. Domestic FPGA manufacturers still face greater challenges in terms of ecosystem, patented technology, R&D talents, and development difficulty. At present, in the field of FPGA IP, there is a lack of IP companies such as Cadence in China, and segmented and specialized IP companies such as Achronix have not yet appeared. There is heavy dependence on IP.

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