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Strategy Analytics, the research and consulting company, released “RF Industry Review October– December 2006,” which notes that leading suppliers of RF components continued to report significant profits in Q4 on strong wireless handsets and wireless system demand. In the fourth quarter of 2006, the majority of RF component suppliers...

Since the end of 2006, several modem vendors have launched or announced development of USB cellular modems. A new study from ABI Research reveals a growing and increasingly competitive market and forecasts shipments of these modems in excess of 22 million by 2012. According to principal analyst Dan Shey,...

According to Lance Wilson, research director, semiconductors, at ABI Research, “High power radio frequency ICs have been ‘flying under the radar’ for the last couple of years. There are a lot more being sold than people realize. Readers of a new study we have just published will be very...

Vendors of solutions based on silicon and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) face an uphill battle to make a dent in the huge market for timing devices, according to a study from ABI Research. The market was and is dominated by quartz crystal oscillator technology. Most of the largest crystal oscillator...

Diamond Microwave Devices (DMD), a subsidiary of Element Six Ltd. (E6), has signed a contract with INEX to provide the processing technology for its electronic component development program. DMD is working on the next generation of high power, high temperature semiconductor devices for microwave power electronics. Based within the...

A QinetiQ led consortium has been awarded the Enabling Secure Information Infrastructure (ESII) programme by the UK MoD’s (Ministry of Defence) Research Acquisition Organisation (RAO). The initial four tasks are worth in excess of £5 M and form the first research packages let under a three and a half...

An award of up to £500,000 has been awarded to BAE Systems’ research partner Leicester University, to carry out research in conjunction with leading Indian research institutions aimed at the development of new control technologies for Unmanned Air Vehicles. The grant was awarded by the UK India Education and...

Global semiconductor foundry UMC has joined the Power Forward Initiative (PFI). The Initiative, made up of more than 20 industry-leading electronics companies, is sponsored by Cadence and was formed in May 2006 to advance the adoption of the Common Power Format (CPF), which captures essential design intent for power...

The European Commission has adopted the European Space Policy, which reflects the key strategic importance that space systems and space applications have for Europe, in order to live up to its global leadership aspirations in selected areas. This communication marks a milestone for the development of space policy in...

Raytheon Co.’s Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile-T (GEM-T) upgrade program reached its first-ever $100 M sales award. This award includes orders for the US Army and a Foreign Military Sales contract for 230 GEM-T upgrades, plus spares. This is the largest order received to date for GEM-T and bolsters Raytheon’s...