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NEC Corp. is strengthening its strategic operations by launching its new regional headquarters for Latin America. The decision forms part of an overall strategy of regionalization, which covers five main geographic areas outside of Japan; Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), North America and Latin America. NEC’s...

Link Microtek has set up a dedicated export sales team as part of a long-term strategy to develop overseas business for the RF, microwave and infra-red technology products the company designs and manufactures at its premises in Basingstoke, UK. Spearheaded by Chaxu Lad and Ed Yeap, the team aims...

Rohde & Schwarz has added new functions to its R&S®BBA100 broadband amplifier family to create a one-box solution. Integrated RF output switches and sample port switches allow the amplifiers to be used for many applications without the need for external switching matrices. Existing third-party amplifiers can also be integrated...

Siemens AG will increase its stake in the publicly listed Indian company Siemens Ltd. from 55.3 percent to 75 percent. During the offer period, which commenced on March 25, 2011 and closed on April 13, 2011, shareholders of Siemens Ltd. offered to sell Siemens AG a total of 29...

Anritsu Co. introduces the MS2711E Spectrum Master, the latest handheld spectrum analyzer designed for technicians, installers, field RF engineers, and contractors responsible for monitoring the growing number of interfering signals, as well as assessing signal quality on a wide range of increasingly complex signals. Easy to use, integrated and...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced delivery of a fully integrated 1.1 THz network analysis measurement solution to Japan’s Yamaguchi University. The solution will play a critical role in enabling the university to study metamaterials at THz frequencies. The THz region of the electromagnetic spectrum has enormous potential for high-data-rate communications,...

Endwave Corp. , a provider of high frequency RF MMIC devices and integrated subsystems, announced the release of a new sub-harmonically pumped mixer (2 x LO) MMIC. Designed and manufactured in cooperation with WIN Semiconductor Corp.'s 0.1 µm PHEMT process development, model EWM9002ZZ offers a broadband frequency performance of...

Mobile operators AT&T and Sprint have recently struck deals with cellular embedded module vendors to provide modules for machine-to-machine (M2M) application developer partners at discounted rates. Their goal is to encourage app developers to embrace 3G – and now 4G – M2M modules. Why do developers need these incentives?...

Raytheon Co. received the US Army and Navy’s Joint Air-to-Ground Missile request for proposal and will respond as a prime contractor. Raytheon is teamed with The Boeing Co. for the competition. Joint Air to Ground Missile (JAGM) is a cost-effective, low-risk solution to meet the program needs among the...

The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, has signed a three-year site license agreement with COMSOL to provide all the Schools within KTH with COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software. Over 16,000 teachers, researchers and students will now have access to the entire suite of tools. COMSOL Multiphysics enables engineers...