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The International Telecommunication Union’s SmallSat Symposium and Workshop has strengthened cooperation and partnerships in the Americas region.

The dual use SGDC Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite built by Thales Alenia Space for Brazil is ready to be shipped to Kourou, French Guyana for launch in March.

Skyworks Solutions Inc. announced that Steven C. Machuga has been promoted to vice president of worldwide operations. Machuga has been with Skyworks since 1999 and most recently served as vice president of external manufacturing and operations engineering.

Qualcomm Inc. and TDK Corp. announced the completion of the previously announced joint venture under the name RF360 Holdings Singapore PTE. Ltd. (RF360 Holdings). The joint venture will enable Qualcomm’s RFFE Business Unit to deliver RF front-end (RFFE) modules and RF filters into fully integrated systems for mobile devices and fast-growing business segments, such as Internet of Things (IoT), automotive applications, connected computing, and more. The business being transferred constitutes a part of the TDK SAW Business Group activities.

By fall, AT&T is planning to conduct field trials of its millimeter wave propagation over power line technology named Project AirGig. AirGig has the potential to provide Gbps data rates without incurring expensive construction costs.

Eastern OptX announced that it will sell 70 GHz switch matrices designed and manufactured by In-Phase Technologies. In-Phase Technologies is a leading supplier of analog, digital, RF, microwave, and fiber optic Automated Test Equipment (ATE).

Anaren Inc.’s IoT Group announced the release of version 2.0 of its innovative Anaren Atmosphere™ online development platform. Atmosphere affords embedded, mobile and cloud developers an exceptionally fast way to create IoT applications with an easy-to-use IoT development environment. 

ETL Systems will be showcasing its new advanced technologies in RF distribution at Convergence India 2017, which is taking place on February 8 to 10 in New Delhi.

EDI CON China 2017, a conference that brings together engineers working on high-frequency analog and high-speed digital designs, taking place April 25-27 at the Shanghai Convention Center & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing (Shanghai, China), announces the keynote speaker for this year’s event will be Peter Rabbeni, Sr. Director RF BU Product Marketing at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Rabbeni will bring his significant insights on semiconductor technology to bear on his talk entitled, “Technologies for the Next Wave of Mobile Data.”