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Driven by new demand from consumer electronics and wireless applications, the global market for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) will expand to $8.8 B in 2012, up from $6.1 B in 2006, iSuppli Corp. predicts. "The markets for mainstay MEMS actuator products—like inkjet heads and Digital Light Processor (DLP) chips from...

MI Technologies has completed installation of a very large planar near-field antenna measurement system at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane), located in Crane, IN. NSWC Crane provides comprehensive support for complex military systems spanning development, deployment and sustainment in three mission areas: Electronic Warfare/Information Operations, Special Missions...

STMicroelectronics and Ericsson have agreed to merge Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless into a joint venture. The 50/50 joint venture will have the industry's strongest product offering in semiconductors and platforms for mobile applications and will be an important supplier to Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and Sharp....

REDtone has launched East Malaysia’s first WiMAX broadband services powered by Motorola technology. The first phase of the WiMAX network covers Kota Kinabalu business district, enabling high speed Internet access as well as data applications for enterprises. In an effort to expand its broadband services offerings in East Malaysia,...

Terma has secured a contract to provide Multi Link capability to the Royal Danish Navy’s Flexible Support Ships and Frigates. The Multi Link solution will be fully integrated into the Terma C-Flex Command and Control System onboard the five ships. The application will assure the ships’ participation on both...

Extending its portfolio of high performance RF solutions, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced a high-linearity, ultra-low noise quadrature (IQ) modulator that delivers RF output transmission up to 4 GHz, allowing service providers to easily support multiple wireless communications standards on a single RF transceiver card. TI’s TRF370317 IQ modulator...

OEwaves Inc. has been awarded a contract to develop frequency agile bandpass and notch filters to support agile receiver systems for military and communication applications. The filter development builds upon OEwaves’ proprietary photonics filter technology concept that provides wideband tunability. Such highly agile filters enhance receiver system performances and...

National Instruments announced the NI PXI-8108, a PXI embedded controller, and two new PXI system accessories, a 32 GB solid-state hard drive and the NI PXI-8250 system monitoring module. These new products provide increased system performance and reliability to help engineers and scientists achieve faster process execution, lower test...

Micronetics Inc. announced that Kevin Beals has been promoted to President and Carl Lueders has been appointed CFO. Since 2006, Beals has served as Vice President of New Business Development at Micronetics. Prior to his joining Micronetics, he served as District Sales Manager at M/A-COM Inc. During his 15...

Tyco Electronics M/A-COM announced the MASW-008955, a new DC-3.5 GHz SP3T RoHS compliant switch for applications that require high linearity, low insertion loss and fast settling time over a wide frequency range in an ultra small package size. “Typical applications for this product include filter and antenna switching in...