What is the expected revenue from the Intel modem in the back half of the year 
 this area. Microsoft made acquisition in this. And you know, all of them more or less will -- and some other, it effects what we offer.
So all those are areas that were in LTE and 5G -- and in 5G, we are doing. And one of the reasons that we have a step-up in China now is the antenna and the fast deployment. And we serve all those components. And we have a good visibility. I'm very optimistic about the prospects there.
Now, I think you asked about handset or so -- you put it right, it's a consolidated area. MediaTek and Qualcomm is there. We are engaged with our customers in China discussing and have initial ramp on 5G. The way to -- for us to approach the 5G is not through the modern side that is consolidated and people want to build their own stuff. Other than customers that we have there is to go to the application process. Because this is now revolutionized and opened up.
So the camera becomes much more DSP-oriented with feature AI. And also, what is called Conversational AI or a NLP, natural language processing, this is moving to the edge, this is moving to the smartphone, and that's where we are coming with our smart sensing portfolio and getting traction there.
So, you may not see a -- there will not be news in terms of Qualcomm, MediaTek in 5G modem, but there are other avenues that we're going to approach and have engagement. And, you know, the market is not just bringing the ace speed. The merchant chip is also -- the OEMs that are building their own chips and looking for our stuff as well.
Matthew D. Ramsay -- Cowen -- Analyst
Thank you, Gideon. That's great perspective all the way around. As a follow-up from me, I think, Yaniv, you talked about in the guidance, royalties being higher in the second half of the year versus the first half. And it's notable that I would expect the revenue you get from the Intel modem would be significantly less in the back half of the year. So if you could talk about maybe the magnitude that you're expecting out of 5G base station in the back half of the year, just kind of the moving parts on the royalty side would be helpful. Thank you.
Yaniv Arieli -- Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So as you say, there are many moving parts. It was always the case in the CEVA model. And this is why in one hand, it's quite difficult to model this out. And based on the new rules of the 606, we just wait for the customer reports at the end of the 30 days after the quarter end. And then we get the real visibility of how the quarter works out. So in every segment, we have ups and downs, in every segment, we have seasonality.
This year, I think, seasonality and COVID-19 has completely changed. We saw vacuum cleaners have been very, very strong or TVs in the first half of the year, something that is not commonly -- a common practice. Because, people wanted to -- they had more time to shop at home or wanted their house to be cleaner or had more kids around, different rooms, they needed TVs. That's true for Bluetooth, WiFi devices. We just came out of our strongest royalty numbers ever for Bluetooth and WiFi in the second quarter.
And remember, when we stepped into this first -- at the second quarter, at the end of the first, we believe that Q2 will be the low point of the year for us. And from there on, it's going to pick up.
So how long were we -- it was two and a half or three months ago. So very difficult to predict and answer the right answer knowing today how Q3 and Q4 are going to look like. We thought -- you mentioned correctly, the handset space, there is a change, at least with one well-known OEM in the 5G aspects. But, they came out with a very, very successful low-cost version, which is doing extremely well. I think all of us were super surprised by the excellent results they came up with two weeks ago, caught everybody by surprise. And that's part of the very strong second quarter for us as well.
We couldn't have known that in advance, nor do we know how Q3 and Q4 would look like from that aspects or from different aspects. So that's one area. Another area is the emerging economies, as Gideo
 this area. Microsoft made acquisition in this. And you know, all of them more or less will -- and some other, it effects what we offer.
So all those are areas that were in LTE and 5G -- and in 5G, we are doing. And one of the reasons that we have a step-up in China now is the antenna and the fast deployment. And we serve all those components. And we have a good visibility. I'm very optimistic about the prospects there.
Now, I think you asked about handset or so -- you put it right, it's a consolidated area. MediaTek and Qualcomm is there. We are engaged with our customers in China discussing and have initial ramp on 5G. The way to -- for us to approach the 5G is not through the modern side that is consolidated and people want to build their own stuff. Other than customers that we have there is to go to the application process. Because this is now revolutionized and opened up.
So the camera becomes much more DSP-oriented with feature AI. And also, what is called Conversational AI or a NLP, natural language processing, this is moving to the edge, this is moving to the smartphone, and that's where we are coming with our smart sensing portfolio and getting traction there.
So, you may not see a -- there will not be news in terms of Qualcomm, MediaTek in 5G modem, but there are other avenues that we're going to approach and have engagement. And, you know, the market is not just bringing the ace speed. The merchant chip is also -- the OEMs that are building their own chips and looking for our stuff as well.
Matthew D. Ramsay -- Cowen -- Analyst
Thank you, Gideon. That's great perspective all the way around. As a follow-up from me, I think, Yaniv, you talked about in the guidance, royalties being higher in the second half of the year versus the first half. And it's notable that I would expect the revenue you get from the Intel modem would be significantly less in the back half of the year. So if you could talk about maybe the magnitude that you're expecting out of 5G base station in the back half of the year, just kind of the moving parts on the royalty side would be helpful. Thank you.
Yaniv Arieli -- Chief Financial Officer
 Yes. So as you say, there are many moving parts. It was always the case in the CEVA model. And this is why in one hand, it's quite difficult to model this out. And based on the new rules of the 606, we just wait for the customer reports at the end of the 30 days after the quarter end. And then we get the real visibility of how the quarter works out. So in every segment, we have ups and downs, in every segment, we have seasonality.
This year, I think, seasonality and COVID-19 has completely changed. We saw vacuum cleaners have been very, very strong or TVs in the first half of the year, something that is not commonly -- a common practice. Because, people wanted to -- they had more time to shop at home or wanted their house to be cleaner or had more kids around, different rooms, they needed TVs. That's true for Bluetooth, WiFi devices. We just came out of our strongest royalty numbers ever for Bluetooth and WiFi in the second quarter.
And remember, when we stepped into this first -- at the second quarter, at the end of the first, we believe that Q2 will be the low point of the year for us. And from there on, it's going to pick up.
So how long were we -- it was two and a half or three months ago. So very difficult to predict and answer the right answer knowing today how Q3 and Q4 are going to look like. We thought -- you mentioned correctly, the handset space, there is a change, at least with one well-known OEM in the 5G aspects. But, they came out with a very, very successful low-cost version, which is doing extremely well. I think all of us were super surprised by the excellent results they came up with two weeks ago, caught everybody by surprise. And that's part of the very strong second quarter for us as well.
We couldn't have known that in advance, nor do we know how Q3 and Q4 would look like from that aspects or from different aspects. So that's one area. Another area is the emerging economies, as Gideo