Investors Silverton Partners and Sevin Rosen Funds have sold their stakes in Javelin Semiconductor Inc of Austin, TX, USA, which was one of the first firms to develop 3G wireless communications power amplifiers (PAs) based on ...
Tags: CMOS PAs, Electronics
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says it is supporting Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 smartphone platforms with multiple high-performance analog and front-end ...
Tags: Skyworks, Samsung Galaxy
Electronic component distributor Richardson RFPD Inc (an Arrow Electronics Company) of LaFox, IL, USA has announced availability and full design support capabilities for a new evaluation kit for a 5W gallium nitride monolithic microwave ...
Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a new silicon germanium (SiGe) based transceiver family to address the market for wireless data links with data rates of more than 1Gbps between LTE/4G base stations and core networks. ...
Tags: Infineon, SiGe Transceivers
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its AWL9581 front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) is being used in the latest WiFi module of Murata Manufacturing Company Ltd ...
Tags: Murata, Front-End IC, WiFi Module
At the 14th annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON 2013) in Orlando, FL (7-9 April), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA launched three ...
In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA says that it has been selected by a leading smartphone maker to supply multiple 3G/4G LTE components into a recently announced fourth-generation flagship smartphone platform. The ...
Tags: smartphone maker, smartphone manufacturers, smartphone
In conjunction with the 2013 Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology conference (GOMACTech 13) in Las Vegas (11-14 March), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of ...
Tags: TriQuint, GaN Ku-Band PA, Broadband Integrated Limiter/LNA
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has announced significant ...
Tags: TowerJazz, Tower Semiconductor, Front-End Module Market
Monitoring and measurement through ingestible, implanted, and body-worn wireless sensors can improve healthcare, and if those sensors can support continuous data streaming, more real-time information will be available for analysis. ...
Tags: wireless sensor, healthcare, data streaming
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has expanded its dual-band ProEficient-Plus power amplifier (PA) family with the introduction of the AWT6765, optimized for LTE bands ...
Tags: Anadigics, broadband wireless, wireline
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has introduced highly integrated front-end modules enabling 802.11ac connectivity in smartphones and tablets. IEEE ...
Microchip has developed a capacitive contactless identification system that relies on near-field effects around the human body. A $1 fob or token, carried about a person, sets up a field that extends to the wearers fingertips, allowing ...
Tags: Body's Electric, Microchip, contactless identification system
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA is shipping production volumes of its AWL9581 front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) for a new 802.11ac router manufactured by a Japan ...
Tags: GaAs, AWL9581 FEIC, Anadigics