RF & Microwave Industry News

RSS

Connect these impedance points and do be patient to get a glimpse of baltimore’s favorite _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Download the Puzzler (PDF) 1 1.00 + j0.25 2 0.65 + j0.15 3 0.50 + j0.05 4 0.40 + j0.10 5 0.40 + j0.25...

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. announced its Chief Financial Officer, Steve Buhaly, was named "CFO of the Year" at The Portland Business Journal 's annual awards program. Buhaly received the honor in the public company category. "Steve Buhaly is a terrific role model for our entire organization. In addition to ensuring...

To coincide with the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), component manufacturers released and demonstrated a host of new products in March. According to Strategy Analytics, this activity underscores the dramatic shift to higher data consumption. The recently published Strategy...

Driving Right Up to the Brink With all the recent hoopla focused on the Big Budget Showdown between Democrats and Republicans, we as a nation got drawn into the contentious political debates, highlighted by doomsday financial consequences. We were subjected to heated policy arguments, partisan politics, and faced the...

Air, sea, and land electronic warfare (ASLEW) is waged within the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum to both attack and defend against enemy personnel and equipment. The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service report, “Space Communications Systems and Electronic Warfare,” predicts that space communications systems will play a strategic role...

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has the potential to power a range of new applications collecting and sharing personal fitness and health management data, but delays in product deliveries to markets over the past 12 months have some application developers looking to rival technologies and protocols. The Bluetooth SIG did...

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), the voice of the global semiconductor industry, announced the results of its quarterly Wafer Fabrication and Back-end Pricing Survey, analyzing prices paid per wafer and mask set and for outsourced assembly services by fabless semiconductor companies and integrated device manufacturers (IDM). The results of...

MEMS (Micro-electromechanical Systems) are starting to be the “Swiss Army Knives” of modern consumer electronics: they can take the form of (or be incorporated in) accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, altimeters, screens, projectors and microphones. New data from ABI Research indicates that strong growth in the MEMS market over the next...

There is no question that in the long term LTE will become the mainstay 4G network technology, although its universal use is still in the future. Until then, says ABI Research, some service providers will benefit from a dual-platform strategy based on both LTE and WiMAX. Who stands to...

Industry News Texas Instruments has signed a definitive agreement to purchase National Semiconductor in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 B. This merger will unite two industry leaders who have a common commitment to solving analog needs. Both companies will operate independently pending close of the acquisition that is...