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ITT Exelis has been awarded a contract valued at more than $125 million by Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD, to deliver the latest variant of the AN/ALQ-214 airborne jammer.

Precision Devices Inc., a member of the Avrio Technology Group, has appointed Dimac as a pan-European distributor of its Hi-Rel frequency control products.

mimoOn GmbH and Tektelic Communications demonstrated a complete LTE small cell base station at the Small Cell World Summit in London, UK from 4-6 June.

Silicon Labs, a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Energy Micro AS based in Oslo, Norway, the late-stage privately held company that offers a power-efficient portfolio of 32-bit microcontrollers and is developing multi-protocol wireless RF solutions.

When the terms of a military contract required drop-in replacements for an obsolete RF transmitter-amplifier Amplifier Technology reverse engineered the 25 year old technology and developed a 21st Century version that the customer could use with its existing battlefield radios.

Hesse Mechatronics Inc., the Americas subsidiary of Hesse GmbH, leading manufacturer of high-speed fine pitch wedge bonders and fully automatic heavy wire bonders and ribbon bonders for the backend semiconductor industry, announces that it will introduce and demonstrate the new Bondjet BJ931L in booth 6081 in the North Hall at SEMICON West, taking place July 9-11 in San Francisco.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (MACOM), a leading supplier of high performance analog semiconductor solutions, introduced a new Broadband Sub-Harmonic Pumped Mixer for cost sensitive applications covering the 14-32 GHz frequency range and IF frequencies from DC-7 GHz.

United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) announced the frequency band of the CHA3801-QDG LNA has been increased from 1.25 to 1.75GHz to 1 to 2GHz. 

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) introduced a family of 12-bit, 500- to 900-MSPS analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that reduce board space by 80 percent while providing industry-leading signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR).

RF Micro Devices Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, today introduced the RFHA1027, a gallium nitride (GaN) matched power transistor (MPT) that will deliver industry-leading pulse power performance of 500W in a compact flanged package at L-Band.