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The RF to Light 100 dropped another 3% last week, YTD + 9% at 2311. We are 8% down now from its peak two weeks ago, which was reached after five consecutive quarterly increases - a very long period. Increased core inflation data created another sell-off last Wednesday. It...

Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP), Frankfurt, Germany, has announced the availability of its high performance specialty SiGe process for Applied Wave Research 's Analog Office 2006 design suite. The delivery of the first AWR-based IHP process design kit (PDK) is part of a long-term partnership between the two...

TNO Information and Communication Technology has joined forces with the Telematica Instituut and five municipal authorities in the Netherlands to form the D!mpact partnership, which will focus on delivering a total solution for digital local-authority services. The municipalities are Zwolle, Hellendoorn, Heusden, Oldenzaal and Enschede, which is the location...

This year's local 2006 IEEE MTT chapter symposium in Israel, Hertzlia, held on May 8, 2006, was a great success with 43 oral topics and seven posters (compared to a total of 34 oral topics and posters in 2005), and was well attended with more than 400 attendees (compared...

Tektronix Inc. , a worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced that Sony Corp. has adopted Tektronix Real-time Spectrum Analyzers (RTSA) and RFID analysis software developed for measuring and analyzing communication conditions between a reader/writer and an IC card equipped with Sony FeliCa contactless IC card technology....

Four handset power amplifier (PA) suppliers below the top three gained share in 2005, according to findings in the recent Strategy Analytics report, " Anadigics , Avago , Mitsubishi and TriQuint Double PA Share in Handsets." The report examines the changing fortunes and positioning of firms that supply PAs...

Following the success of the event in 2004 and 2005, this year Elektronik magazine , the ZVEI (German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association) and the electronica show are again staging a Wireless Congress – Systems & Applications, an international platform for designers, project managers, systems specialists and key competences...

As part of its continued global expansion Elektrobit has announced the availability of its Wireless SW Test Factory in Beijing, China. For the company’s customers the test factory will provide comprehensive and well-processed software testing services across the entire lifecycle of mobile terminal development. The facility consolidates the mobile...

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM), Turkey's largest government-owned city planning and public services authority, has contracted Harris Corp. to supply its TRuepoint™ microwave radios as part of a major upgrade of the local voice and data infrastructure. With the continual growth of the district's public services infrastructure, which includes transport,...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that it has received a $2 M contract award to provide the avionics for an advanced domestic target program. This contract represents a follow-on order to Micro Systems Inc. , Herley's Center of Excellence for all command and control systems. "Our Micro Systems division is...