RF & Microwave Industry News

Rogers Corp. Launches Cost-Effective Laminates for Automotive Radar Sensor Applications

Rogers Corp. announced the latest addition to its RO4000® Series thermoset circuit materials: RO4830™ high-frequency laminates. RO4830 laminates offer 76 to 81 GHz auto radar sensor designers a lower-cost-but-performance-competitive option. Rogers RO4830 laminates have a lower price point and are processed by means of standard epoxy/glass (FR-4) circuit fabrication methods, for lower overall production costs versus PTFE-based circuits.


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Teledyne to Acquire e2v

Teledyne Technologies Inc. and e2v technologies plc jointly announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash acquisition to be made by Teledyne for the ordinary share capital of e2v by means of a Scheme of Arrangement. It is expected that the acquisition will be completed in the first half of calendar 2017.


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efabless Unveils Online Community to Reimagine Chip Design

efabless Corp., an open-innovation, hardware creation platform,  became the first online marketplace for community-developed, customized intellectual property (IP) and integrated circuits (ICs), allowing hardware system innovators to turn ideas into marketable products. Initially focused on analog and mixed-signal design for customized ICs, efabless addresses all of the steps required to cost effectively take an electronics specification to prototype.


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Momentum Continues for LTE Subscriptions 

5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, announced that LTE continued its impressive momentum in North Americas, Latin America and throughout the world.  The association reported mobile subscriber data for the third quarter of 2016 which included significant regional milestones for LTE according to data and forecasts by Ovum.


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IMT Receives $450,000 Order for Airborne Video Downlink System

xG Technology Inc. (xG) business unit Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT), a leader in advanced digital microwave systems serving the law enforcement, broadcast, sports and entertainment markets, announced it has received a $450,000 order from a state investigation bureau located in the South Atlantic region (“ the Bureau”) for the IMT Airborne Video Downlink System (AVDS).


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