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Isola Group, a market leader in copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and Semico Research, a semiconductor marketing and consulting research company, announced that they have teamed up to launch Boards, Chips and Packaging: Designing to Maximize Results. This new industry event will span the system-level ecosystem to address the roles of system architecture, board design, chip design, package design and final fabrication and assembly processes for hardware product development.

Custom MMIC, a leading supplier of performance driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), is pleased to announce that John Greichen has joined its leadership team as vice president of sales and marketing. He will be responsible for all aspects of sales and marketing for Custom MMIC, as the company continues to rapidly grow its standard product and design services offerings.

Haigh-Farr, a world leader in the design, development and manufacturing of integrated antennas for defense, space and commercial applications, increases its in-house environmental testing capabilities with the construction of a dedicated facility adjacent to its existing building.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced significant updates to its Signal Studio for LTE/LTE-Advanced FDD (N7624B) and TDD (N7625B) software. Both signal-creation tools now support key features of 3GPP Release 12 (Rel-12), accelerating time-to-market for developers of user equipment (UE) and evolved NodeB (eNB) base transceiver stations (BTS) designed to achieve greater spectral efficiency, higher data rates and more-robust links in heterogeneous networks (HetNets).

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, announces the UltraCMOS® 11 platform, the industry’s first RF SOI technology built on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 130 nm 300 mm RF technology platform.

Effective August 1, 2015, the whole of the business and assets of MESL Microwave Ltd., including all of its trading contracts, shall be transferred to its ultimate UK parent, COM DEV Europe Ltd.

Ericsson has signed an LTE expansion contract with Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. that will further boost the operator’s 4G LTE coverage and capacity with the latest Ericsson mobile broadband technology.

Cobham Antenna Systems is sponsoring the Liverpool University Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) team taking part in IMechE’s UAS Challenge 2015, supplying antennas, cables, connectors and expertise.

NXP Semiconductors held an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders and Freescale Semiconductor held a Special General Meeting on NXP’s acquisition of Freescale. Both meetings approved the merger proposal with over 99 percent of the votes cast in favor.

Amphenol Connex has merged with Amphenol RF, headquartered in Danbury, Conn. The combined product portfolio will be marketed and sold under the name Amphenol RF. The Moorpark, Calif. facility will continue to operate as the company’s main North American distribution center and Amphenol RF’s western regional sales office providing support to local customers.