For decades, researchers have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power — resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless ...
The global radio frequency (RF) IC market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 12% from 2016 to 2020, forecasts a report by Technavio. Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to be the main demand-generating region and ...
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added two new packaged driver amplifiers to its expanding product range. 2-9GHz driver amplifier with 15dB of gain The CMD232C3 gallium arsenide ...
Tags: Custom MMIC, GaAs, driver amplifier
Prices for handset peripheral chips have started to fall, squeezing further profits generated from phones, according to industry sources. Peripheral ICs for handsets include power management ICs, radio-frequency (RF) chips, modem chips, ...
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) says that in the last fiscal quarter it has delivered several hundred units of its gallium nitride (GaN)-based solid-state power ...
Tags: GaN-based SSPAs, HEMT, Advantech Wireless
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) has launched a new generation of gallium nitride (GaN)-based solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs) with a number of improvements to ...
Tags: GaN-based SSPAs, Advantech Wireless, HEMT
For fiscal first-quarter 2017 (to 2 July 2016), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $697.6m, up ...
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications) says that its infrastructure solutions have supported more than twenty 5G ...
Tags: Qorvo, Infrastructure Providers
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched what it claims is the fastest gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Tags: Peregrine, GaN FET Driver
Airbus Defence and Space, which is reckoned to be the world's second largest space company (and a division of Airbus Group, Europe's top defence and space enterprise), has won its third contract in 18 months for its latest gallium nitride ...
Tags: GaN HEMT, SSPAs, Navigation Satellites
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added to its BroadRange family of wideband gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC distributed amplifiers with the 2-20GHz CMD238, suitable for military, space and ...
Tags: communications systems, Amplifier
Ghent University/IMEC in Belgium and X-Celeprint in Ireland/USA claim "the first III-V optoelectronic components transfer printed on and coupled to a silicon photonic integrated circuit" [Andreas De Groote et al, Optics Express, vol24, ...
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added two new gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC BroadRange distributed amplifiers to its portfolio, for applications for including military/commercial ...
Tags: Custom MMIC, GaAs, monolithic microwave
ICT-STREAMS, a part of the European Union Horizon 2020 program, is a new three-year project launched on 1 February (followed by a kick-off meeting at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on 24-25 February) with the goal of ...
Tags: III-Vs-on-Si, silicon photonics
Spurred by new technology and architectures, very small aperture terminal (VSAT) applications are evolving from enterprise connectivity and video to competitive wireless broadband alternative, notes the Strategy Analytics Advanced ...