Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA - a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) - has launched the UltraCMOS PE42424 high-isolation ...
Tags: Peregrine, CMOS, Wi-Fi Switch
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 qualified Migdal Haemek ...
Tags: TowerJazz, RF Front-End Modules, Electrical
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has appointed industry veteran Emad Afifi to the newly created role of senior ...
Tags: GigOptix, Senior Director, Electrical
Murata Electronics North America and Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, have entered into a definitive agreement under which Murata will acquire all outstanding shares of Peregrine not owned by Murata, for USD 12.50 per share in cash, or ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
The gallium arsenide integrated circuit market will grow to $8bn in 2017, according to a new report ‘The GaAs IC Market’ by The Information Network. The biggest enabler of the mobile data increase and the most important driver ...
Beyond all of the hype and tumult, market drivers and technological developments are converging to ensure a bright future for silicon photonics, according to the ‘Silicon Photonics 2014’ report from Yole Développement. ...
Tags: Silicon Photonics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA - a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) - and RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA have ...
Despite strong growth in the gallium arsenide device market, GaAs bulk substrate manufacturers saw both production and revenues decline for the second consecutive year, according to the Strategy Analytics Advanced Semiconductor Applications ...
IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for wireless connectivity and cellular mobility, is unveiling a family of Nano RF products code named Nucleus. The ...
Tags: RFaxis CMOS, Electrical, Electronics
In the 'Global and China RF Industry Report, 2013-2014', market analayst firm Research In China notes that the biggest event in the RF industry in 2014 is RF Micro Devices' 'takeover' of Triquint Semiconductor. Triquint suffered ...
Tags: Filter, Electrical, Electronics, Mobile RF Industry
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA has unveiled a new line of UltraCMOS monolithic phase & amplitude controllers (MPAC) for Doherty amplifiers used in wireless base-station transmission. The company presented its devices at ...
Tags: Peregrine, Ultracmos Challenge
Some says “if it can be made on Silicon, it will be made on silicon”. Is that true for GaN too? And if so, can it be applied in all GaN-based applications: LED, power, RF and laser?… Yole Développement (Yole) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Power Electronics
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
Tags: POET, Process Equipment
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched the AWL5910 power amplifier (PA), optimized for WiFi infrastructure and multimedia applications including access points, routers, ...
Tags: Anadigics, Wifi Infrastructure