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Sirenza Microdevices Inc. , a designer and supplier of high performance radio frequency (RF) components for communications equipment manufacturers, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Micro Linear Corp. , headquartered in San Jose, CA. Under the terms of the agreement, 0.365 of a Sirenza share...

According to Sky Light Research, Alcatel led in market revenue for point-to-point microwave radio sales in North America for the first quarter of 2006 with 33 percent of revenue in the region. This development comes as the company's strong momentum in delivering mission critical microwave communications networks continues with...

Strategy Analytics , a global research and consulting company, released "Capitalizing on WiMAX: The Market for WiMAX Radio Chips," a report from its RF and Wireless Components Service. The report examines the growth of WiMAX and opportunities for WiMAX radio components. The report investigates the potential for WiMAX in...

Keithley Instruments Inc. , a provider of solutions for emerging measurement needs, announced a new partnership agreement with TestMart Inc. , an operator and service provider for the IT, network maintenance, and test and measurement industries. The agreement authorizes TestMart to present a catalog of Keithley’s precision test and...

ITT Corp. announced that it has been awarded the Operations, Maintenance and Supply-Europe contract by the US Army 's Information Technology, E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center-West (ITEC4-W), based in Fort Huachuca, AZ. The contract has an 11-month base period and four one-year option periods with a total potential value...

PSI-TEC Corp. , a wholly-owned subsidiary of PSI-TEC Holdings Inc., announced that it has established a co-location agreement with a New Jersey-based micro-optics company. The agreement has allowed PSI-TEC scientists to establish a pre-production line in order to test and integrate its organic materials into waveguide devices and system...

Yorkshire Forward has invested £6.50 M to build a 'Factory of the Future', as part of the second phase of development of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, located at the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Waverley, Rotherham, UK. On completion the facility will be owned by...

Following a major upsurge in demand for the company's range of in-house manufactured waveguide products, Link Microtek has expanded both the floor space and the workforce at its waveguide manufacturing facility in Basingstoke, UK, by 50 percent. Booming waveguide sales in the commercial communications and military sectors over recent...

The RF to Light 100 dropped 1% last week, YTD now -1% at 2085. Stocks are cheap now: Average P/E ratio dropped to 30, sum of average P/E times P/B dropped to 69, historic lows since 2000. See chart for more perspective. Being in stage III of the market...

Published August 14, 2006 From: Ky-Hien Do Dear Harlan, How do you build a coaxial balun? Dear Ky-Hien, In its simplest form a coaxial balun can be made from two quarter-wave sections of coaxial line. The unbalanced input is to one line. The outer conductors at this end are...