Optical networking and associated semiconductor technology firm JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported a modest improvement in sales performance during its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (ended 29 December 2012). On a non-GAAP basis, net ...
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 a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) power ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Amplifier, Electronics
University of Notre Dame (UND) in the USA and epiwafer maker IQE have claimed record-breaking balanced frequency performance for a nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) using indium aluminium gallium nitride ...
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 an X-band extension to its low-noise amplifier (LNA) ...
Tags: M/A-COM LNA, M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc, semiconductors
Delphi Automotive is to use NXP tuner chips in car radios. In particular: the SAF775x family of single-chip RF CMOS tuners, NXP´s AM/FM background tuner, and its SAF36xx software defined radio for digital reception. ...
Neul has announced its first transceiver chip for 'white space' communications in 470-790MHz UHF TV bands. Called Iceni, the chip is intended for secure non-line-of-sight machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Both 6 and 8MHz ...
Tags: Neul, transceiver chip, communications
Nujira says the first 4G LTE smartphones to use its power efficient RF technology will be on the market next year. “In the past it was an aspiration to get envelope-tracking (ET) technology designed into volume handsets, now we know ...
Tags: Nujira, 4G LTE smartphones, RF technology
Xylem Inc., has announced the addition of the Bell & Gossett ecocirc wireless to its line of hot water circulators. The company made the announcement at the 2013 AHR Expo, January 28, in Dallas. Designed for plumbing systems without a ...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has made available the EPC9004 development board, featuring the firm’s enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) field-effect transistors (FETs) for power ...
Tags: EPC, Power Systems, eGaN FETs
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), estimates that its engineered substrates (which are used in ...
Tags: Soitec, Engineered Substrates, Smart Phones, Tablets
The Government is to fund research into LED-based Gbit/s free-space optical networks. The heavyweight academic team includes the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and St Andrews, and is lead by the University of Strathclyde. ...
Tags: LED, Gbit/s, optical networks, UKplc
Analog Devices has expanded its EngineerZone online technical support community to support its full line of signal processing devices. The chip supplier has set-up the online community to help its customers to engage online with ADI ...
Tags: ADI, Consumer Electronics
With the rollout of a global mobile standard like 4G LTE there are 20 or more frequency bands and operators have found themselves struggling with RF front end circuit technologies not up to the task, writes Jeremy Hendy, v-p sales and ...
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that its board of directors has authorized an extension of RFMD’s 2011 share repurchase program to repurchase up to $200m of ...
For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (ended 29 December 2012), radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor firm RF Micro Devices, of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported significantly improved financial results.Revenue was $271.2m, up ...