RF & Microwave Industry News

Cobham Antenna Aids Turkish Airlines’ Flight Plans

Turkish Airlines is the first A330 operator to take delivery of its aircraft with the Cobham HGA-7001 high gain antenna subsystem installed, enabling Inmarsat SwiftBroadband (SBB) throughout the aircraft. The airline has ordered eight A330s to be delivered during the next 18 months, all of which will be equipped...
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Investors Back Nujira’s Vision With £10 million

Nujira has secured a further £10 million of funding for its growth plans. The investment round, led by a new investor, Climate Change Capital Private Equity (CPE) and supported by existing investors Amadeus, NES Partners, Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) and the angel investors, will reinforce the company’s vision to...
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ST Boosts Next-Generation Base Stations

STMicroelectronics has announced a highly integrated device enabling wireless infrastructure equipment makers to meet the demand for more flexible and compact next-generation mobile network base stations. The low cost STW82100B series will also be used in equipment such as RF instrumentation and general wireless-infrastructure applications. Demand for broadband services...
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National Instruments To Acquire AWR Corp.

National Instruments announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement under which NI will acquire AWR Corp. AWR is a supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) software for designing RF and high-frequency components and systems for the semiconductor, aerospace and defense, communications and test equipment industries. Upon the...
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National Instruments Acquires Phase Matrix

National Instruments announced its acquisition of Phase Matrix, Inc. (PMI). The acquisition brings key RF talent, technologies and manufacturing capabilities to NI and will significantly increase the capability of NI products in high-frequency RF and microwave applications, extending the frequency range of NI products to 26.5 GHz and beyond....
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MTT-S IMS Flash: Show Daily - May 19

View in Browser May 19, 2011 Welcome to Microwave Journal 's MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2011 Show Coverage June 5-10, 2011, Baltimore, MD Welcome to this year's IMS Show Daily, Microwave Journal 's coverage of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium taking place June 5-10 in Baltimore, MD. The...
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Peregrine to Launch DTCs

Peregrine Semiconductor will launch a new product at IMS 2011. DuNE Digitally Tunable Capacitors (DTC) will be in the spotlight in Booth 1626. Peregrine’s PE64904 (SPI) and PE64905 (I2C) DTCs are solid-state, digitally controlled variable capacitors targeting 100 MHz to 3 GHz. These unprecedented UltraCMOS RFICs enable frequency agile...
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