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NXP Semiconductors announced the third generation of Airfast products with the release of four LDMOS transistors for macro base stations. Airfast 3 improves transistor performance in efficiency, gain, RF output power and signal bandwidth, with the instantaneous bandwidth to cover an entire cellular band using a single device.

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high-performance analog RF, microwave, millimeter wave, photonic semiconductor products and components, announced the international debut of 27 new high-performance MMIC products at European Microwave Week (EuMW) 2016. Setting new benchmarks for performance, quality and reliability, these new products comprise the industry’s most extensive portfolio of DC to 100 GHz MMICs for test and measurement, SATCOM, aerospace and defense, wired broadband and industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) applications.

Nokia announced it has acquired Eta Devices, a U.S. start-up focused on improving the efficiency of power amplifiers used in cellular base stations, 802.11ac access points and handsets. Eta Devices was formed to commercialize asymmetric multilevel outphasing (AMO) technology.

Peregrine Semiconductor has released two 60 GHz switches, the highest frequency switch products fabricated with SOI process technology. The PE42525 and PE426525 are reflective, SPDT switches that cover 9 kHz to 60 GHz.

Anaya Vardya, CEO at American Standard Circuits, announces that his company has achieved its AS9100 Rev C Certification. AS9100 is the internationally recognized quality management system standard specific to the aerospace, aviation and defense industries. This standard is strongly supported and adhered to by major aerospace OEMs and is being required by vendors within the supply chain on an increasing basis.

Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, and the Institute for Information Industry of Taiwan (III), a non-profit non-governmental technology development organization, today announced an agreement for mutual exploration of a wide range of information and communications technology (ICT) related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G wireless connectivity.

Ampleon announced the modular M2 RF Energy reference system to replace magnetrons in the industrial heating market. This technology replacement is driven by the need for a longer service lifetime of the RF generators, to reduce operating costs and minimize the downtime of heating systems.

Keysight Technologies unveiled a signal analyzer with continuous sweep frequency coverage from 3 Hz to 110 GHz, raising the bar for millimeter wave signal analysis.

MACOM is sampling three new broadband voltage controlled oscillators (VCO) that collectively cover 6 to 20 GHz. They were designed to address the needs of test and measurement (T&M), aerospace and defense (A&D) and communications.

The K707 Digital Receiver from Innovative Integration supports two FMC-310 plug-in modules providing up to 6 antenna inputs, 128 independent channels of DDC, and one spectrum analyzer embedded in a Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA. It supports monitoring and/or recording of wide- or narrow-band spectra or channelized IF band data. The receiver supports contiguous recording at 1,300 MByte/s to four SSDs until running out of disk space.