RF & Microwave Industry News

Weightless SIG announces Weightless-P hardware and Ignition Pack, partners with Antenova

The Weightless SIG announced availability of Weightless-P hardware and the pre-launch of a Weightless-P Software Development Kit. In conjunction with Weightless Vendor partner, Antenova, Weightless-P hardware is to be shown at CTIA SuperMobility in Las Vegas, September 7-9. A limited number of free Weightless-P SDKs will be made available to developers in an offer specific to the show.


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WIN Semi reports August revenue, drops Q3 guidance

Smartphone transition creates "wait-and-see" conservatism

WIN Semiconductors dropped its fiscal Q3 revenue outlook to a low single-digit decline from Q2, compared to the previous outlook of a single-digit increase. August revenue was NT$ 1.2 billion ($38 million), a 24 percent increase from the prior year and down 1.7 percent from the prior quarter.


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Rohde & Schwarz test solutions help define and standardize 5G

Rohde & Schwarz has enhanced its proven test solution platforms to include advanced capabilities that are facilitating the research, development and standardization of 5G. The fifth generation of mobile radio will open up new frequency bands for commercial wireless communications in the microwave and millimeter wave ranges to increase date rates on a massive scale. 


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Rogers Corp. to exhibit high-performance circuit materials at PCB West 2016 Conference & Exhibition

Rogers Corp. will bring its materials expertise to PCB West on September 14 at the Santa Clara Convention Center (Santa Clara, CA), booth 201. Rogers will exhibit its high-performance circuit materials in addition to supporting a technical symposium for printed-circuit-board (PCB) users and designers with a presentation on the effects of conductor metal surface roughness on high-frequency PCB performance. 


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Ericsson introducing the world’s first 5G NR radio

Ericsson is commercializing the world's first 5G NR radio for massive MIMO, with the first deployments coming in 2017. Together with the Ericsson 5G Plug-Ins announced in June and Ericsson's already commercially available Radio System Baseband 5216, which currently powers Ericsson's award-winning Radio Test Bed, Ericsson is first to deliver all components of a 5G access network.


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Mobile Experts slices up the IoT pie

Mobile Experts released the most comprehensive analysis ever published on the Internet of Things market space. The new report, titled IoT: The Big Picture 2016 takes a very broad look at 36 different technologies and mapping 26 applications of the Internet of Things.


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