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TowerJazz announced that it completed its previously announced acquisition of Micron Technology’s fabrication facility in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo, Japan. The acquisition nearly doubles TowerJazz’s current internal manufacturing capacity, cost-effectively increasing production by 60,000 wafers per month. The added capacity to serve the growing needs of its expanding blue chip...

At IMS 2011, W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Booth 320) will spotlight a rugged 18 GHz cable assembly recently added to its GORE® PHASEFLEX® RF/microwave test assemblies line. This rugged cable assembly is specifically engineered for high throughput production test applications in the wireless infrastructure market. The increased...

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, announced a complete RF front-end module (FEM) for WiMAX radios in mobile handset or portable PC applications. The new AFEM-S257 module is designed specifically for coexistence operation of WiMAX with other cellular and WiFi...

Vectron International announced the release of an ultra low jitter VCSO. The new VS-401 offers 12 fsec of rms jitter over an integrated bandwidth in a 13 x 20 mm footprint. This product is being showcased in Booth 1002 at the IMS 2011 in Baltimore this week. “Applications today...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. introduced the first in a series of ultra low current, general purpose low noise amplifiers (LNA) for diverse wireless applications including satellite receiver set-top boxes, Bluetooth® headsets, medically-prescribed hearing aids, advanced meter reading devices and 2.4 GHz wireless local area networks. These high performance LNAs deliver...

Crystek has introduced a new line of SAW bandpass filters, the CBPFS Series. Encased in a rugged SMA housing, this filter line is designed for test equipment and general lab use. Six models, with center frequency ranges from 836.5 through 1960.0 MHz, compose the CBPFS line. The Crystek CBPFS...

TowerJazz announced availability of its wireless antenna switch SOI process technology applicable to multiple wireless standards. SOI based solutions cost substantially less than legacy solutions based on GaAs PHEMT or silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) technologies. The TowerJazz SOI technology is unique relative to other SOI processes in that it maintains full...

Murata Electronics North America announced the launch of its latest front-end modules for WiFi and Bluetooth® applications. Murata's Microwave Monolithic Integrated Devices (MMID®) integrate the company's power amplifier, low noise amplifier and switching product into single packages for both the 2.45 and 5 GHz bands (respectively numbered MDFE2PFA-022 and...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. extends its leadership position in high power semiconductors with the introduction of a new family of Gallium Nitride (GaN) RF power transistors. This new family of products targets L- and S-band pulsed radar applications and leverages M/A-COM Tech’s rich heritage of providing both standard and...

Australia NBN Co – established by the Australian Government to design, build and operate the national broadband network – has appointed Ericsson to build and operate a 2.3 GHz fixed-wireless broadband network based on LTE technology. It will serve rural Australia with download speeds of up to 12 Mbps...