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Samsung has made a strategic investment in UK company picoChip . The amount of the investment is undisclosed, but it forms part of the $27 M of ‘D-round’ new investment announced in July by picoChip. The round has brought the total company funding to $70.5 M, which will enable...

1. Introduction The microstrip resonator has been widely used to measure the dispersion, phase velocity, and effective dielectric constant in microstrip structures cause Because of its high Q-factor and structural simplicity, it also finds broad applications in microwave and millimeter-wave circuits such as filters; duplexers, oscillators, mixers, couplers, and...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp. , received a $3.6 M satellite communications equipment order from a US government agency. The equipment will support the government agency's satellite-based communications network. The order includes a wide range of Comtech EF Data products, including...

Arlon displayed high performance, "Best-in-Class" CLTE-XT for multi-layer, phase sensitive microwave circuits for radar, antennas and other circuits requiring high reliability at this year's EuMW. CLTE-XT represents the eXtended Technology of the existing CLTE product line. CLTE-XT is a micro dispersed ceramic PTFE composite utilizing a woven fiberglass reinforcement...

The Finnish Defense Force has procured HYDRA, the unattended, networked sensing system recently developed by SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS) UK, a Finmeccanica company. The FDF will employ HYDRA as a system for perimeter and area surveillance at tactical level. HYDRA is a situational awareness asset, which, through...

Eyelit Inc. , a manufacturing software provider for visibility, control and coordination of manufacturing operations for the aerospace & defense, electronics, life sciences, semiconductor and solar panel industries, announced that it has purchased and moved into its new corporate office. The new office provides nearly three times more office...

Jacket Micro Devices Inc. (JMD), a worldwide supplier of integrated RF modules for high performance wireless products, has selected Singapore-based MicroCircuit Technology (S) Pte. Ltd. (MCT) for large-scale fabrication of substrates and other products using JMD’s proprietary Multi-layer Organic (MLO) technology. MLO technologies use thin low loss organic materials...

Freescale Semiconductor introduced three high power LDMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) that allow designers of RF power amplifiers for WiMAX base stations to reduce costs, form factors and part counts. The devices also increase performance and reliability when compared with amplifiers employing discrete RF power transistors. The new...

Chomerics Asia Pacific division of Parker Hannifin Corp. announced the opening of a new facility in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, India. Located adjacent to the 260 acre Special Economic Zone, the facility will enable Chomerics to better serve the rapidly growing Indian market for IT, telecom and consumer electronic products....

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. , a pure-play independent specialty foundry, announced that it has won a multi-million dollar per month manufacturing deal for its Fab2 at the 0.13-micron technology generation from a first-tier, US integrated device manufacturer (IDM). Under this deal, technology will be transferred during the coming several quarters...