Infineon Technologies AG introduced its first devices in a family of Gallium Nitride (GaN) on Silicon Carbide (SiC) RF power transistors at this year's European Microwave Week. As part of Infineon’s industry-leading GaN portfoliothe ...
Two of the best known Taiwanese personal computer (PC) vendors, Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc. (Asus), are aggressively targeting the mobile-device market, especially the smartphone segment, by launching several new cellphone models in ...
Tags: PC Vendors, Smartphone
In booth C309 (Hall Ternes) at European Microwave Week (EuMW 2015) in Paris, France (6-11 September), Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has introduced its first devices in a family of gallium nitride on silicon carbide ...
Tags: EuMW 2015, GaN-on-silicon, GaN-on-SiC, PA
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched three new power amplifiers (PAs) optimized for 3G and 4G small-cell applications, including picocells, enterprise-class femtocells, ...
Tags: Anadigics, small-cell, Power Amplifiers
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has now shipped more than 1 million gallium nitride on ...
Global smartphone unit demand increased 7% in Q1. The sales reached 310 million units, with growth down from 19 percent year-on-year in Q4 2014. For the second quarter of 2015, the actual number of units sold globally amounted to 302.1 ...
Tags: smartphone, 4G smartphone
Integrated Device Technology Inc (IDT) of San Jose, CA, USA has added two new members to its growing family of silicon-based RF voltage variable attenuators (VVA) – which deliver analog control for applications that require precise ...
Tags: RF voltage, RF products
According to the data, Chinese smartphone market contracted 4% in H1 of 2015. The worldwide smartphone market kicked off the year with an expected post-holiday dispersion in shipment volume compared to the previous quarter's unprecedented ...
Tags: Smartphone, Huawei, Lenvo
China shipped a total of 237 million handsets in the first half of 2015, rising 7.4% from a year earlier, with shipments of 4G models increasing 381.8% on year to 195 million units, according to data from China Academy of Information and ...
Tags: handsets, handset shipments, mobile phone, smartphone
German automobile major Opel will arm its passenger cars from next month with Opel OnStar, a personal connectivity and service assistant touted to offer a safer and comfortable driving. The application will be donned by the next ...
Tags: vehcile technology, Opel Astra, OnStar App
Falling product ASPs and gross margins are set to erode Taiwan's fabless IC firms' profitability in 2015, according to industry sources. Foundry chipmakers have seen their production capacities stay loose thus far in 2015, said the ...
Tags: fabless IC, IC industry
IC orders for PCs have remained slow thus far in 2015, whereas orders for handsets and consumer electronics devices are picking up prior to the third quarter peak season, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. PC-related ...
In first-quarter 2015, smartphone sales reached 310 million units, up 7% year-on-year but slowing from the 19% year-on-year growth in Q4/2014 (which reached 346 million units). This was due to year-on-year shrinkage of -14% in China and -5% ...
Tags: Smartphone Sales, 4G Market
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
Automobile major Daimler and wireless technologies firm Qualcomm have joined hands to develop technologies for connected car. The first phase of the tie-up will stress on harnessing mobile technology for improving in-car experience which ...
Tags: Daimler, wireless technologies