After beginning volume production of its first bulk-CMOS radio frequency (RF) switch in 2008, Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has now reached an annual run-rate far exceeding 1 billion and a cumulative shipments of 5 billion RF ...
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for wireless connectivity and cellular mobility, has launched a new family of ultra-miniature 2.4GHz RF front-end IC ...
Tags: RFaxis CMOS, amplifier
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA - a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has teamed with Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan (its parent ...
Tags: Semiconductor, integrated circuits
Murata Electronics North America Inc, a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan has acquired all outstanding shares of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA for $12.50 per share. Peregrine will continue to ...
Murata Electronics North America and Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, have entered into a definitive agreement under which Murata will acquire all outstanding shares of Peregrine not owned by Murata, for USD 12.50 per share in cash, or ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA says that GIT Japan Inc - a provider of interface technologies between people and information, and a competence center for ultrawideband (UWB) chipset and module development - has selected ...
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has received the 2013 Supplier ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
By using a unique silicon fin replacement process, Imec of Leuven, Belgium has demonstrated what it claims are the first III-V compound semiconductor FinFET devices integrated epitaxially on 300mm silicon wafers. The nanoelectronics ...
Tags: FinFETs III-V CMOS, Electrical, Electronics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says it has set new standards of performance for high-frequency CMOS RF switches with ...
Tags: CMOS RF Switches, Electrical
In a recent blog in mid-March, Eric Higham of market research firm Strategy Analytics noted that gallium arsenide device revenue closed 2012 at a new record of just over $5.3bn, albeit up by just under 2% on 2011. The small gain was driven ...
Tags: GaAs device, Semiconductors
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, says that its CMOS RF (radiofFrequency) front-end ...
Tags: RFaxis, RF semiconductors, wireless connectivity, CMOS RF, RFeICs
22 June 2012 Agilent's ADS selected by Sivers for front-to-back silicon RFIC implementation Sivers IMA AB of Kista,Sweden,which makes microwave products for telecoms,industrial and test&measurement applications,has selected the Advanced ...
Tags: RFIC, Agilent, EDA, ADS platform
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine,CA,USA,which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets,has published the white paper'CMOS Wi-Fi RF Front-Ends for ...