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Emerson announced that it has agreed to divest its connectivity solutions business unit to Bel Fuse Inc.  The transaction, valued at $98 million, is expected to close before the end of the fiscal year, with proceeds deployed for incremental share repurchase in 2014.

CTS Corp., through its subsidiary, CTS Electronic Components Inc., continues to deliver outstanding products that meet more industry’s needs by offering clock and voltage control oscillators with high performances and great values. The company will be unveiling these new devices on June 3-5, 2014 at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Tampa, FL at booth number 322.

Cobham plc announces that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Aeroflex Holding Corp. ("Aeroflex") for $10.50 per Aeroflex share in cash following completion, giving the proposed transaction an enterprise value of approximately $1,460m (£869m). 

MACOM will showcase the industry's broadest GaN product portfolio at IMS2014 in Tampa, Florida, at booth 915. MACOM will also feature a suite of new products aimed at applications spanning industrial, scientific, medical, point-to-point wireless and X-Band radar.
 

National Instruments(NI) is working with Nokia’s Networks business to collaborate on advanced research related to 5G wireless technologies such as exploring peak data rates and cell-edge rates in excess of 10 Gbps and 100 Mbps, respectively.

STMicroelectronicsand Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. have signed a comprehensive agreement on 28 nm Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) technology for multi-source manufacturing collaboration.

Saabhas extended its surface radar portfolio, with the introduction of five all-new complementary Giraffe radars for land and sea.

Airbus Defence and Space has delivered full operational capabilities for X-band satellite communications to four UK Royal Navy Mine Counter Measure Vessels operating in the Arabian Gulf.

For over 50 years, Voltronics has been providing variable trimmer capacitors to the electronics industry.  In the field of magnetic resonance imaging, Voltronics have developed the broadest line of non-magnetic products in the world.  The V9000 seriesis the newest, smallest, high voltage trimmer capacitor.

If you had any doubts that Brooklyn was fast becoming one of the hottest locales in the tech industry, look no further than the 5G Summit, held from April 23 to 25 at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering. Co-organized by the NYU WIRELESS research center and Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN), the conference, planned to be an annual event from now on, brought together industry leaders from across academia, business and government to explore the future of Fifth Generation—more commonly called 5G—wireless technology.