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TriQuint Semiconductor , an RF semiconductor manufacturer and foundry services provider, and IQE Plc , a manufacturer of advanced semiconductor wafers to the global semiconductor industry, announced TriQuint has placed the largest commercial gallium nitride (GaN) wafer order in the history of IQE Plc. The wafers will support ongoing...

Tyco Electronics Ltd. announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the company to pursue the divestiture of its Radio Frequency Components and Subsystem business. This business represented approximately $500 M of the Wireless Systems segment's total sales of $887 M in fiscal 2007. The remaining portion of the...

DragonWave Inc. , a global supplier of next-generation wireless networks, announced Horizon Duo, the latest addition to its Horizon portfolio of native Ethernet radios. Horizon Duo delivers industry-leading capacity of up to 1.6 Gbps per link and lowest-cost-per-bit performance for wireless carriers offering increasingly bandwidth-intensive WiMAX and 4G services....

The transmit/receive modules developed by EADS Defence & Security (DS) for the fire control radar of the Medium Extended Air Defence System (MEADS) have passed their acceptance tests and are being put into serial production. Thus, EADS DS is the first European company to mass produce the new Active...

Alcatel-Lucent is partnering with the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in South Africa to promote education and research in the field of telecommunication and signal processing. Under the agreement, the company will finance a Chair to the amount of €41,000 per year, who will supervise post-graduate students in telecommunication...

ORBCOMM and Wavecom have signed an agreement whereby the two companies will work together to address the growing demand for devices that combine both satellite and terrestrial wireless communications. ORBCOMM's COO, Marc Eisenberg, said, "We are very excited that Wavecom intends to promote dual-mode services that combine ORBCOMM with...

HumiSeal ®, the leading conformal coatings solutions provider for the protection of printed circuit boards and electronic assemblies, has signed an agreement with South African-based distributor PEM Technologies to distribute its range of conformal coatings throughout Southern Africa. Based in Gauteng, PEM Technologies has established a good reputation within...

Dedicated microwave conferences such as IMS or European Microwave Week are among the best opportunities for RF engineers to come together and share information on the latest technology and techniques. In addition to these events, engineers and business managers should regularly attend certain broader conferences, which offer an excellent...

There may have been one less acronym this year as the 3GSM World Congress dropped its familiar 3GSM moniker to become the Mobile World Congress, but there was no lack of technical shorthand. The likes of LTE, WiMAX, MiMo, Dig-RF, HSPA+, etc., not to mention 3GPP and NMDG, jostled...

Shared Spectrum Co. (SSC) has entered into an agreement with Harris Corp. to conduct a joint feasibility study of SSC’s dynamic spectrum access (DSA) technology that will lead to the near-term integration of SSC’s cognitive radio software in field-ready Harris Falcon® III military radios. Acting as prime, SSC will...