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The world’s first fully integrated, high performance WiMAX family of transceivers specifically for mobile and handheld applications has been announced by NXP Semiconductors . The 2.3 to 2.4 GHz UXF23480 designed for use within North America and Australia and the 2.5 to 2.7 GHz UXF23460 for use throughout Taiwan,...

The global electronics design and manufacturing services company, TES , has announced a significant expansion of its worldwide presence through the acquisition of a manufacturing plant in Penang, Malaysia. Alongside the company’s existing plant at Langon, near Rennes, France, this new manufacturing resource will ensure a balanced response to...

Temex has been actively expanding its representation on either side of the Atlantic with significant agreements in Germany and North America. First the company has concluded a representative agreement with Spectrum Germany, a division of Spectrum Electronics, to promote and sell the Temex range of components and sub-systems in...

Nokia has introduced Wibree technology as an open industry initiative extending local connectivity to small devices. This new radio technology developed by Nokia Research Center complements other local connectivity technologies, consuming only a fraction of the power compared to other such radio technologies, enabling smaller and less costly implementations...

Tektronix Inc. , a worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced that it is working with LitePoint Corp. , a provider of advanced wireless test solutions, to create an end-to end test solution for WiMAX. The effort between LitePoint and Tektronix, including new test tools for trouble-shooting...

The RF to Light 100 rose 1% last week, YTD +10 at 2347. 50% of the stocks moved up. Skyworks up 34% after announcement that it will exit its baseband operations and undertake restructuring. Broadcom will release financials again with its third quarter 2006 results on October 19, 2006....

Defence and security authorities around the world are presently pursuing the idea of Network-centric Operations as the key to efficiently identifying and fighting potential threats. For defence applications this is well accepted, but now civil governmental organisations are also using this approach for security applications. The basic idea is...

Chip Estimate Corp. , a provider of architectural-level chip planning solutions, announced that it has raised three and one-half million dollars in expansion financing in two closings. ITU Ventures, who participated in the original seed funding of the company, led this round. The company has raised $5.5 M since...

Microsemi Corp. , a manufacturer of high performance analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits and high reliability semiconductors, has announced that Congress has appropriated $1.8 M to allow Microsemi’s Power Products Group (formerly Bend, Oregon-based Advanced Power Technology) to develop technology related to the use of silicon carbide semiconductor components in military...

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $120 M to provide the US Army with five Enhanced AN/TPQ-36 radars. The contract was awarded by the Army’s Program Executive Officer-Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (PEO-IEW&S) on September 26; the radars – also known as the EQ-36 Counterfire...