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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...

Keithley Instruments Inc. , a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announced a new partnership with The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA. The partnership is designed to support research collaboration in the pursuit of nanotechnology and nanoscience solutions for the semiconductor industry's next generation instrumentation and measurement...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that the company is shipping Genesys 2007.08. This latest release of Genesys includes new statistical and electromagnetic analyses that provide affordable, first-pass accuracy for RF and microwave designs, resulting in shorter physical design cycles and faster time to market. The new Genesys features the RF...

Utilizing the ability of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in modern computer graphics cards to stream floating point calculations, Remcom ’s XFdtd full wave 3D EM solver achieves extremely fast calculation speeds via the XStream® Hardware FDTD option. The new Version 3.0 of XStream Hardware FDTD is now based...

The US Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) led a team that included Northrop Grumman Corp. and its partners, Taboada Research Instruments and Cherokee CRC, to design, build and integrate a one-of-a-kind laser positioning system in a Boeing 737 flight simulator to study flight performance while aircrews...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a US Air Force contract to develop the next generation of the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Integration Backbone (DIB). The DIB is an architecture through which military analysts and the intelligence communities can collaborate globally, regardless of their military service affiliation, enabling joint...

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $33 M contract to deliver paveway II Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) GBU-12 kits to the Air Force. Delivery to the US Air Force is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2008. This contract reflects the US Air Force’s continuous need for...