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The total Bluetooth IC market (including stand alone and combo ICs) is expected to reach $4.3 billion in 2012 — an increase of 21% on 2011. Revenues are forecast to grow at a compound growth rate of over 20% to reach almost $12 billion by 2017.

Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, commenced volume shipments of several medium to high-power ZigBee® front-end solutions for smart meters, home automation, security sensors and gateway applications. Skyworks’ front-end solutions deliver the industry’s most integrated and highest efficiency devices, enabling leading broadband service providers, security companies and utilities to offer next generation connected home services with increased wireless ranges for applications including monitoring, control, energy management and health care.

RF Micro Devices Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, will host a conference call to review fiscal 2013 second quarter financial results on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. (ET). The conference call will be webcast live on the company's web site at http://www.rfmd.com (under "Investors").

Come and meet with your simulation experts on ANSYS booth # 616A at EuMW 2012. Get a demo of the company's latest versions HFSS 15.0, Designer 8.0. Talk about HPC and more.

SemiGen Inc., (www.semigen.net), an ISO and ITAR certified RF/Microwave assembly and automated PCB manufacturing company, has announced that they will be exhibiting at the SMTA International Conference in Orlando, Florida, October 14th-18th in Booth #251.

Analog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9250 dual-channel, 14-bit, 250 MSPS, A/D converter featuring the JEDEC JESD204B serial output data interface standard. The AD9250 A/D converter is the first-to-market with full JESD204B Subclass 1 deterministic latency at 250 MSPS. This functionality accommodates the precise synchronization of multiple data-conversion channels through a serial interface.

ON Semiconductor, a premier global supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has joined the multi-partner, industrial research and development program at imec, a leading nanoelectronics research center, to collaborate on the development of next-generation Gallium Nitride (GaN) on silicon (Si) power devices.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. (MTSI) announced that John Croteau will be joining M/A-COM Tech as its president, effective October 1, 2012, and will be reporting to Charles Bland, its CEO. As president, Croteau will assume responsibility for world-wide sales, operations, R&D, marketing and business unit management.

Infineon Technologies AG has introduced its first single-chip radar solutions for applications in industrial and commercial sensing, based on a SiGe process technology and operating in the 24 GHz ISM band.

The programme for the next conference of the ARMMS RF & Microwave Society that will be held on 19 and 20 November at Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire, UK has been announced.