UK-based SPTS Technologies has sold its Thermal Products operations to Sumitomo Precision Products’ arm SPP Technologies, in a deal worth $28m. SPP is engaged in the production of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and ...
Tags: SPTS technologies, thermal products, MEMS, LED
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that its board of directors has approved the following: a restructuring of the LED Products business; a $500m stock buyback authorization for fiscal 2016; and the ...
Tags: Cree LED, LED chip, ASP Erosion
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) has launched the second-generation Super Compact TT Series gallium nitride (GaN)-based 300W C-band solid-state power amplifier ...
Tags: GaN HEMT, block up-converter
Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that it is working with Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP) to develop a radar-based sensing solution using Infineon's 60GHz silicon germanium (SiGe) transceiver technology ...
Tags: Infineon, Google, Radar Technology
Plextek RF Integration of Great Chesterford, near Cambridge, UK, which designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, says that its CEO Liam Devlin is presenting the paper 'Designing GaN PA MMICs' in the Microwave, ...
Tags: Plextek, Microwave Circuit
NXP Semiconductors N.V. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands has agreed to sell its RF Power business for $1.8bn to Jianguang Asset Management Co Ltd (JAC Capital, a subsidiary of China state-owned investment company JIC Capital). NXP's RF Power ...
Tags: RF Power Business, JAC
After a successful 2013, the market for RF power semiconductors for wireless infrastructure blew off the chart in 2014, according to a new report from market analyst firm ABI Research. The Asia-Pacific region, and China specifically, ...
S3 Group of Dublin, Ireland (an independent supplier of RF and mixed-signal IP and tailored silicon solutions to service operators, OEMs and semiconductor vendors) has made available what is claimed to be the first fully integrated, ...
Tags: RFIC, Single-Conversion Radio
Although wireless backhaul radio quantities will grow slowly to about 1.7 million units in 2019, price erosion will cause the corresponding RF component revenue in the segment to decline at a compound average growth rate (CAGR) of minus 2% ...
Tags: RF component, Electronics
Analog Devices Inc (ADI) of Norwood, MA, USA (which provides ICs for analog and digital signal processing applications) has introduced a highly integrated, 4-channel, 24GHz receiver downconverter monolithic microwave integrated circuit ...
Tags: Analog Devices, Electronics
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) has launched a 50W X-band gallium nitride (GaN)-based solid-state power block up-converter (SSPB/BUC) for tactical military ...
Tags: Advantech Wireless, RF equipment
Microsanj LLC of Santa Clara, CA, USA - a supplier of high-resolution, thermoreflectance imaging analysis (TIA) c, tools and consulting services - participated in three conferences during Microwave Week in Phoenix, Arizona. At the 2015 ...
Tags: TIA system, thermal imaging system
At the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2015) in Phoenix, AZ (19-21 May), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, ...
Tags: Power Transistor, Linear Operation
Avago Technologies Ltd (a supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for wireless, wireline, storage and industrial applications) has launched the ALM-2203 miniature highly integrated low-noise amplifier (LNA)-filter RFIC module, ...
Tags: LNA-Filter Module, Car Radio
Qorvo Inc, a provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, has launched a family of gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifiers (PAs) that are said to dramatically improve the ...