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Epic Communications Inc. (Epicom) has announced a series of next generation W-CDMA/HSPA power amplifiers. These PA products are specifically designed for 3G portable devices and mobile phones, and are compatible with industry leading 3G chipset solutions. Epicom plans to offer more advanced PA products for other 3G standards such...

Cree Inc. , a leader in silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, has introduced a fully-qualified commercial silicon carbide power MOSFET. This establishes a new benchmark for energy efficient power switches and can enable design engineers to develop high voltage circuits with extremely fast switching speeds and ultralow switching losses....

Norsat International Inc. , a provider of broadband communications solutions, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all the shares of Sinclair Technologies Holdings Inc. , a provider of antenna and RF conditioning products, based in Aurora, Ontario. Norsat will pay US$19.25 M, subject to...

Tanner EDA , a catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (IC), and TowerJazz , a global specialty foundry leader, have completed qualification of Tanner EDA’s process design kit (PDK) for TowerJazz’s 0.18 um Power Management process. This design kit includes...

Raytheon Co. has opened a new facility collocated with the US military to enhance collaboration and industrial teaming on warfighter technologies and systems. Located at the Aberdeen Proving Ground's Government and Technology Enterprise or GATE Park — a technology, research and development business area for government and non-government users...

The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) announced that the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry revenue for Q3 2010 was $1307.0 M, an 11.9 percent increase compared to $1167.9 M in Q3 2009. Sequential EDA revenue for Q3 increased 6.9 percent, while the four-quarters moving average, which compares...

Brush Engineered Materials Inc. announced it will change its name to Materion Corp. and unify all of its businesses under the new name effective March 8, 2011. The company's common stock will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The company said it was announcing the new...

Polaris Wireless, a leader in high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions, announced it achieved an average annual 66 percent increase in contract bookings from 2007 to 2010. This accomplishment capped a year in which the 10-year-old Silicon Valley company expanded its workforce and enlarged its footprint by opening a Dubai...

Practice director Dominique Bonte comments: “The integration of smartphones and smartphone applications into vehicles represents nothing less than a renaissance of the interest in both consumer and commercial telematics markets. Car OEMs, automotive Tier Ones, telematics service providers and independent system and software developers are rushing to launch smartphone...

Wuhan Research Institute of Post and Telecommunications (WRI) and NEC Corp. have announced an agreement to collaborate in the development, manufacturing, sales and field support of 3GPP compliant LTE wireless access systems, including wireless base stations (eNodeB), Operation and Maintenance Sub-systems and Self Organizing Networks (SON). The jointly developed...