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It’s back! For the first time since the 2003 event in Philadelphia, Microwave Week—featuring the International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the RFIC Symposium and the ARFTG Conference—returns to a city east of the Mississippi. That’s right, the largest show dedicated solely to our industry will be held in Atlanta: home...

Atlanta in June is at its very best. The weather is great, it’s not too hot or too humid, the evenings are cool and the bugs (most of them) are still dormant. As you make your plans to attend IMS 2008 at the Georgia World Congress Center, build some...

The following list is complete as of June 16, 2008. 3G Metalworx Inc. — www.3gmetalworx.com — 1052 A-Alpha Waveguide Co. — www.a-alphawaveguide.com — 1805 Acceleware Corp. — www.acceleware.com — 751 Accumet Engineering Corp. — www.accumet.com — 411 Actipass Co. Ltd. — www.actipass.com — 539 AdTech Ceramics — www.adtechceramics.com —...

A complete day-by-day schedule of the technical presentations that compose the MTT-S, RFIC, ARFTG and μAPS conferences. You may download a complete list of the 2008 IEEE MTT-S Technical Program in a PDF form here: 2008 IEEE MTT-S Technical Program (PDF download: 444 K)...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, announced that Samsung is leveraging its ultra-compact and high efficiency front-end modules (FEM) for open-loop EDGE, and power amplifiers (PA) for WCDMA and HSDPA across more than 10 innovative universal mobile telecommunications...

Auriga Measurement Systems LLC announced that it has signed a multi-year contract with Government Sales Force (GSF), McLean, VA, to lead the company’s sales effort for design services and RF microwave and millimeter-wave module products in the federal sector. “Leveraging more than 20 years of federal sales experience, GSF...

Savi , a Lockheed Martin company, has been awarded a contract with the US Army Joint Munitions Command (JMC) for a government-developed, automated information system (AIS) that supports depot-level ammunition logistics functions. The award was made by Army Sustainment Command on behalf of the JMC. Munitions Total Management Systems-Field...

Cobham plc (Cobham) announced that it has reached agreement to purchase M/A-COM from Tyco Electronics for a cash consideration of US$425 M on a debt and cash free basis payable on completion, which will be satisfied from Cobham’s existing cash and debt facilities. The goodwill arising on completion is...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. and Radyne Corp. jointly announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Comtech has agreed to acquire Radyne in an all-cash transaction. Aggregate sales of the two companies would have been $651.5 M based on Comtech's sales of $504.3 M for its four...

Ericsson is poised to deliver end-to-end HSPA and LTE technology to the winners of Sweden's 2.6 GHz spectrum auction, as they look to rapid deployment of advanced mobile networks. The spectrum auction was the first held in the world to license according to the harmonized band arrangement decision by...