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Peregrine Semiconductor and IBM have teamed up to develop and manufacture future generations of Peregrine's patented UltraCMOS™ silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) process technology. When fully qualified, the next-generation UltraCMOS RF ICs will be manufactured by IBM for Peregrine in the jointly-developed 180-nanometer RF CMOS process at IBM's 200 mm semiconductor manufacturing...

Thanks to rapid growth in the high-end server, notebook, mobile handset and wired communication segments, the GaN power management semiconductor market is expected to reach $183.6 M in revenue by 2013, up from virtually nil in 2010, according to iSuppli Corp. GaN is an emerging process technology for power...

According to In-Stat, the cellular industry has been a battle ground between different communication technology standards driven by regional and industry politics, and Super 3G/4G appears no different. However, the industry appears to be narrowing down to just three standards: LTE, WiMAX and XGP. Despite the differences in the...

A recent Price Waterhouse Cooper report claims most merger and acquisitions (M&A) will come from the middle market and smaller firms. Late 2009 already saw some notable M&A activity in the microwave industry. In November, Channel Microwave was acquired by Smiths Group plc (now operating as an independent division...

Industry News Wireless Telecom Group Inc. announced the execution of a definitive agreement to sell substantially all of the operating assets of its wholly owned subsidiary Willtek Communications GmbH and affiliates to Aeroflex Inc. , a Delaware corporation, in exchange for $2,750,000 in cash and the assumption of certain...

Base stations use phase locked loop (PLL) systems to generate either RF or IF local signals to up-convert baseband signals to RF signals or vice versa. There are different ways of integrating PLL system blocks, including voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO), based on system requirements, performance and material cost. Why PLL...

Medium Power Amplifiers AML announces the immediate availability of medium power broadband amplifiers model AML0126P3001 and AML0126P3002. Operating in the frequency range of 100 MHz to 26.5 GHz, these amplifiers offer gain of 30 dB minimum and typical noise figure below 5 dB (above 500 MHz). Output P1dB is...

1999 was the last time the International Microwave Symposium was held at the Anaheim Convention Center. The Symposium theme, “The Magic Touch of Microwaves,” was a play off the proximity to Disney’s Magic Kingdom. However, General Chair Bob Eisenhart, writing in the Microwave Journal show issue from that year,...

Harris Corp. , an international communications and information technology company, has received a $20 M order from the US Department of Defense for Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio systems, accessory kits and other tactical communications products. The field-proven Harris AN/PRC-117G provides warfighters with unprecedented situational awareness of the...

Nitronex and Modelithics have released the first state-of-the-art nonlinear model for Nitronex’s high power gallium nitride (GaN) NPT1012 device. The model combines heating effects, static and dynamic bias characteristics with large-signal performance to deliver accuracy unlike other GaN HEMT device models. The collaborative model predicts performance of the NPT1012...