For second-quarter 2013, RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reported revenue of $190.1m. This is up 3% on $184.2m last quarter (although Q1 had been impacted by ...
Tags: front-end component, Electrical, Electronics
Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has launched the HMC6981LS6 power amplifier ...
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Sprint says it will have live LTE sites using former Clearwire spectrum across the U.S. next year and expects all its new mobile devices in 2014 to be equipped for those frequencies -- though not necessarily iPhones. The company gave an ...
Tags: Wide Rollout and Device
Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added the CMD190 to its growing monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) library of standard products. The CMD190 is a highly efficient gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC ultra-low-noise amplifier for ...
Tags: Custom MMIC LNA, Electrical, Electronics
The technology to implement Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) is maturing , but mobile operators won't roll out telephony services in earnest until 2015. At the same time apps like Skype and Fring are growing quickly in popularity, according to ...
We rely on our cars every day to get us where we need to go, but what do you do when your primary mode of transportation disappears? A motor vehicle is stolen every 44 seconds in the United States and July and August are the top two months ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Car, car safety
At the 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Seattle, WA, USA (4-6 June), Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on ...
Tags: Peregrine, SOS, CMOS, SOI, Electronics
On the roof of a medical building in San Francisco, Sprint Nextel has a cell site that's far above the cramped canyons of the city's streets, but despite the wide-open views, space is limited. Sprint shares the roof with other mobile ...
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IBM has introduced the fifth generation of its semiconductor technology specialized for high-performance communications. The firm’s latest silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip-making process is designed to enable increasing amounts of data ...
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In booth #930 at the IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2013) in Seattle (4-6 June), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies) has introduced a new ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has introduced two new SP5T RF switches for the next generation of high-power LTE ...
Tags: SP5T RF Switches, Military Radios
Ericsson may have a contender for oddest networking product if it commercializes the wireless bus windows it demonstrated at this week's CTIA Wireless trade show. The windows would have built-in, translucent antennas connected to an ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched three broadband solderable flip-chip devices, namely a ...
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Data centre and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe. Cisco is aiming to become ...
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K-TOR, LLC, designer and manufacturer of portable power generators, announced today the release of their second-generation Pocket Socket hand crank generator, the Pocket Socket 2. This affordable human powered generator features a standard ...
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