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Qualcomm Inc. along with its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., announced Qualcomm Technologies’ 5G New Radio (NR) prototype system and trial platform. The 5G NR prototype system operates in the sub-6 GHz spectrum bands and is being utilized to showcase the company’s innovative 5G designs to efficiently achieve multi-gigabit per second data rates and low latency.

Cobham Wireless has partnered with China Mobile to showcase the world’s first end-to-end demonstration of Cellular Internet of Things testing technology at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2016.

Fairview Microwave Inc., a supplier of on-demand microwave and RF components, releases an all new product line of voltage controlled oscillators covering select bands from 10 MHz to 11 GHz. A comprehensive and growing portfolio of VCOs from Fairview includes over 60 different models in true surface mount and coaxial packaged versions available off-the-shelf from stock.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, announces the availability of its discontinued products through the Arrow Electronics’ Supply Assurance program, enabling customers to order obsolete Peregrine products beyond the product’s end-of-life process and last-time-buy event.

Tuesday 28 June 2016 saw the opening of the extension of the Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG logistics centre, which doubles the company’s warehouse capacity.

Ericsson and King's College London will be demonstrating a 5G use case of tactile robotic surgery that will show a probe as a robotic representation of a biological finger that gives the surgeon the sense of touch and can send accurate real-time localization of hard nodules in soft tissue.

Harris Corp. has received a $27 million order to deliver maritime electronic warfare (EW) payloads for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Advanced Decoy Architecture Project (ADAP) program. The order was received during the fourth quarter of Harris’ fiscal 2016.

Nokia is to make the first ever demonstration of a 5G network running on commercial platforms as part of its showcase at 5G World that will underline the momentum of bringing 5G to commercial reality. Following the successful launch in February of the industry-first 5G-ready AirScale Radio Access technology Nokia will demonstrate AirScale working together with its Cloud Packet Core, running on a Nokia AirFrame data center platform, the foundation of a commercial 5G architecture.

Mercury Systems Inc. announced it received the 3-Star Supplier Excellence Award from Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems business unit. The award recognizes the Company’s Camarillo, Calif. and San Jose, Calif. facilities for outstanding delivery and quality performance.

Skyworks Solutions announced that Huawei's newest flagship P9 and P9 Plus smartphones are being enabled by 10 Skyworks ICs, from highly integrated modules to analog control ICs.