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On 12 December NEC Corp. , Japan, and India's HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), inaugurated their new facility – NEC HCL System Technologies Ltd. – in Noida, India. The two companies first announced joint investment in this Center of Excellence for Product Engineering in June 2005. With capital of $5...

EADS will supply Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar Systems (TRML-3D) to the Malaysian Ministry of Defense (MoD) . The letter of acceptance signed with EADS to meet the defense artillery local warning radar requirements of the Malaysian Government promises the delivery of two such TRML-3D systems slated for the...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) for wireless communications applications, announced that the company's Board of Directors has approved the expansion of RFMD's assembly operations. The expansion, which is projected to be on line during the June quarter of 2006, is...

The Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , Germany, has announced a wide-ranging partnership with ARC International that expands Fraunhofer's use of configurable processors to further the development and commercialization of consumer products based on Digital Video Broadcast-handheld (DVB-H) technology. The Digital Video Broadcasting Project is an industry-led consortium of...

Taconic , Petersburgh, NY, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the site of its new manufacturing facility in Cheonan, Korea. The company could not have asked for a nicer day as company CEO Andrew Russell kicked off events with sincere congratulations to everyone involved. Awards for outstanding performance were then handed out...

EMS Wireless , a division of EMS Technologies Inc., announced that it has shipped more than $80 M in orders for its products from January through the first week of December 2005. That represents almost double the orders shipped during all of 2004. "This is the first time in...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that it has completed the divestiture of its semiconductor products business to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners for $2.66 B, subject to various closing-related adjustments. The divestiture is one in a series of actions Agilent announced on August 15, 2005,...

Alcatel Alenia Space has signed a €147 contract with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to supply 25 antennas for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) project. The project is aimed at setting up an array of radio telescopes to study the origins of galaxies and the formation of stars...

Saab has signed an agreement to acquire Aerospace Monitoring and Systems (Pty) Ltd. (AMS) in South Africa. AMS focuses on proprietary aircraft monitoring and recording systems for the global aerospace and defense market. The company is based in Midrand, has a turn over of 58M Rand and employs 75...

On 7 December 2005 Queen's University Belfast (QUB) announced the inception of a world-class microwave and millimeter-wave research facility within its new Research Institute in Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT). The facility will have access to state-of-the-art test and measurement equipment, valued at over $1 million and supplied...