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In a filing with the SEC, Cree stated that Infineon’s acquisition of Cree’s Wolfspeed subsidiary is proceeding through the regulatory review process, including the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. Cree and Infineon believe the transaction will close in February 2017.

e2v announces the opportunity for customers to register now for privileged access to sample the EV12AD500, the first Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) to offer direct C-Band digitization.

Pentek Inc. announced a new member of its popular family of Talon® RF/IF signal recording and playback systems. The Model RTR 2727A rugged portable recorder targets applications needing to record and reproduce high-bandwidth signals. A complete PC workstation, the RTR 2727A provides high data capacity and aggregate recording rates of up to 4.0 GB/s in a four-channel system.

Cobham is working with Harris Corp. to provide automated test and alignment capabilities for Harris XL-200P P25 radios using the Cobham 3920B Digital Radio Test Set. The Harris XL-200P is a multiband portable radio that supports P25 communications on VHF, UHF, and 700/800 MHz spectrum.

Huawei and China Mobile have developed and tested a single antenna that supports all the FDD and TDD LTE frequency bands used by China Mobile. The industry-first FDD/TDD converged antenna supports bands 3, 8 and eight channels of bands 34, 39 and 41.

China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator, has deployed a wideband massive MIMO site on its network in Shanghai, using equipment from Huawei. The live network demonstrated peak cell throughput rates of 72 Mb/s on the uplink and 630 Mb/s on the downlink.

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $1.2 billion contract to upgrade 134 F-16 aircraft for the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). Among the enhancements are an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, a modern commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based avionics subsystem, a large-format, high-resolution center pedestal display and a high-volume and high-speed data bus.

Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, announced the launch of a European Commission Horizon 2020 project to enable mass commercialization of Si photonics-based transceivers to meet future data transmission requirements in data centers and super computing systems.

MACOM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AppliedMicro Circuits Corporation. The acquisition, valued at approximately $770 million, allows MACOM to strengthen its portfolio for the data center market, adding OTN framers, MACsec Ethernet networking components and a single-lambda PAM4 platform.

u-blox has become an official member of the European Smart Metering Industry Group – the European voice of smart energy solution providers.