In Star Wars terms, the small cells that mobile carriers and vendors will be talking up this week at Mobile World Congress are more like the odd-couple androids R2-D2 and C-3PO than like their foes, the Empire's phalanxes of identical storm ...
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Qualcomm’s RF front end chip-set could trigger a big payday for a small UK company. Last week Qualcomm announced its entry into the RF front end business with a chipset using a technique called envelope tracking. ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says it is shipping production volumes of its AWT6651 ProEficient power amplifier (PA) to Samsung Electronics for the Galaxy Music ...
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At the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (25–28 February), Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has ...
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA says it is expanding its entry solutions product portfolio to include multiple new solutions for 2G and 3G entry smartphones. ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) is ramping several antenna tuning products with smartphone manufacturers. The devices are meeting the market demand for ...
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For full-year 2012, RF RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reported revenue of $829.2m, down 7% on 2011’s $896.1m due mainly to a decrease in Mobile Devices ...
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LEDs are projected to grow more than six-fold to nearly $100bn and power conversion electronics to $15bn over the next ten years, reckons market analyst firm Lux Research in the report “Winning the Jump Ball: Sorting Winners from ...
As part of a continued focus on sustainability, the nation’s largest retailer has selected energy-efficient LED lighting by Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) to illuminate the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Mt. Pleasant, WI. Cree® ...
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Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA has expanded its family of multimode multi-band (MMMB) power amplifiers (PAs) with the introduction of the RF7388 3G/4G MMMB PA. ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several OEMs and smartphone providers are leveraging its SkyOne front-end solution. The SkyOne platform, ...
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Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA has introduced multiple new products to its portfolio of envelope tracking (ET) power management and power amplifier (PA) ...
For fourth-quarter 2012, 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 reported ...
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Richardson RFPD Inc (an Arrow Electronics Company) of LaFox, IL, USA has launched a new website resource focused exclusively on gallium nitride (GaN). Several Richardson RFPD suppliers are driving innovation in the development of GaN ...
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Qualcomm today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies, in conjunction with Sierra Wireless and Ericsson, has successfully demonstrated LTE carrier aggregation and Category 4 data rates. LTE carrier aggregation is ...
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