Amplifiers

RFMD Announces Major Gallium Nitride (GaN) Milestones

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD®) announced that RFMD has qualified and released the RF3931, a 48 V, 30 W gallium nitride (GaN) unmatched transistor optimized for high power commercial and defense applications. The RF3931 is RFMD's first GaN product to achieve full product qualification, a process through which RF...
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291.1 Million Mobile Handsets Shipped in 3Q-2009

“The outlook for mobile handset markets continues to improve,” says Jake Saunders, ABI Research’s VP for Forecasting. “While 3Q-2009 showed a YoY 6.5 percent contraction in shipments to 291.1 million, 2009 should close out with only a 4 to 5 percent contraction (to 1,138 million for the year).” Handset...
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New Waves: Passive Components

Power Divider Model PD0218-S2 is a two-way Wilkinson power divider that was just released and covers most military and EW bands from 2 to 18 GHz. These power dividers are available in octave and multi-octave bandwidths and are available from Aeroflex/Inmet stock. The designs are based on an industry...
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