GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks)has signed Altima Corporation,a subsidiary of ...
RF Micro Devices Inc(RFMD)of Greensboro,NC,USA,a designer and manufacturer of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies,says that its PowerSmart Power Platforms-the industry's first and only ...
Tags: RFMD, Samsung, GALAXY Note, USA, MMMB
Cree continues to lead the SiC materials marketplace in driving to larger diameters and this latest advancement lowers device cost and enables adoption for customers with existing 150-mm diameter device processing lines. 150-mm epitaxial ...
Tags: Wafer
Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has introduced low basal plane dislocation(LBPD)100-mm 4H silicon carbide(SiC)epitaxial wafers.This LBPD material exhibits a total BPD density of 1 cm-2 in the epitaxial drift layer,with BPDs capable of causing Vf ...
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has launched 5V high-linearity driver amplifiers (in lead-free/green/RoHS-compliant, industry-standard packages) with output powers ...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced the availability of high-quality, low-micropipe 150mm 4H n-type silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers, with highly uniform epitaxial layers as thick as 100 microns available for immediate purchase ...
Tags: SiC wafer
M/A-COM Tech launches MMIC doubler with integrated gain,self-biased doubler and driver stages M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell,MA,USA(which makes analog semiconductors,components and subassemblies for RF,microwave and ...
Tags: M/A-COM Tech, MMIC, doubler, gaas phemt
Comtech Telecommunications Corp says that its subsidiary Comtech PST Corp in Melville, NY, USA has been awarded a $3.1m contract for solid-state, high-power RF switches from a major domestic prime contractor. The firm says that the ...
Tags: Switch, Broadband, Telecommunications Transmission, Electronics
IDG News Service - AT&T Wireless has partially disabled service at 16 cellphone towers in Oakland after the California city said they were interfering with its emergency communications system. Police and firefighters had complained of ...
Tags: Oakland, wireless, communications system, police radio system
RF Micro Devices,says it has begun production shipments of power amplifiers to Samsung for use in the next-generation Galaxy S3 4G LTE smartphone. This 4G LTE smartphone features a dual core multi-mode 3G/LTE modem. RFMD said it ...
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 launched the SPDT PE42421 RF switch,available in a miniature,6-lead SC-70 package.The ...
Tags: Peregrine, SPDT RF switch, San Diego, USA
Germany-Wireless LED system manufacturer Astera has forecast significant medium-term growth of the market that it helped to create,predicting that the demand for wireless LED products could double by 2014. The company-which pioneered ...
Tags: Germany, Wireless LED, PLASA, Astera
Marvell has designed a 3G chipset for both Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access(TD-SCDMA)and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access(WCDMA)markets. The unified 3G design incorporates an application and communications ...
Tags: Marvell Chipset, 3G chipset, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, wireless modems
Aruba Networks has released the latest version of its WLAN system software,with several changes designed to optimize throughput even as the wireless network is flooded with mobile clients. The company also says the new firmware ...
Tags: Aruba, Wi-Fi software, mobile client, WLAN system software
DOE announces fiscal 2013 SBIR/STTR funding opportunity The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has released its DE-FOA-0000760 funding opportunity announcment for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small ...
Tags: RF devices, Wide bandgap semiconductors, DOE, SBIR