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Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, introduced a product portfolio of energy management solutions for the wireless home. The company’s Linear Products’ business has captured several key design wins with various market leaders for automated meter reading (AMR),...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high performance semiconductor components, released the industry's first 5.8 GHz ISM band transceiver with an integrated power amplifier. The ML5805 is a low-IF, frequency shift key (FSK) transceiver designed for operation in the license-free 5.8...

TriQuint Semiconductor , an RF semiconductor manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced the release of two new HV-HBT (high voltage-heterojunction bipolar transistor) devices created at TriQuint’s San Jose, CA design center, formerly WJ Communications. The highly efficient, highly linear devices expand TriQuint’s HV-HBT portfolio, and when paired with TriQuint’s...

Endwave Corp. , a provider of high-frequency RF modules for telecommunications networks, defense electronics and homeland security systems, has announced the release of a new 60 GHz T/R module that targets short-range indoor communications that must transport data traffic at multi-gigabit speeds. As shown in the block diagram attached,...

Richardson Electronics Ltd. announced it has signed a global distribution agreement with HVVi Semiconductors Inc. , Phoenix, AZ, to distribute its RF power transistors, based on HVVi’s innovative, new HVVFET™ architecture. HVVi recently announced the first major advance in silicon RF power transistor design in more than 15 years....

RF Micro Devices (RFMD®), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high performance semiconductor components, announced it will showcase its industry-leading RF product portfolio at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2008. RFMD delivered this year’s keynote address for the RFIC Symposium Plenary Session, and RFMD...

TriQuint Semiconductor , an RF semiconductor manufacturer and foundry services provider, released the first of its gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors for a wide range of high frequency applications including mobile base station, defense and space communications systems. TriQuint also announced opening the industry’s first GaN Foundry service for...

Plextek , a Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, has completed the design of 2 W and 4 W X-band power amplifier (PA) MMICs for a UK electronics component supplier. Both MMICs cover the entire X-band (8 to 12 GHz) and are available as bare die, packaged components or...

Cree Inc. announces the sample release of two breakthrough gallium nitride (GaN) HEMT transistors for use in WiMAX applications covering the 4.9 to 5.8 GHz frequency band. The new transistors, CGH55015F and CGH55030F, are the first released GaN HEMT WiMAX products specified to operate at up to 5.8 GHz,...

Narda , an L-3 Communications company, will showcase its advanced microwave integrated circuit (MIC) technology that combines microwave hybrid manufacturing with multilayer printed circuit boards and advanced digital devices in Booth 1600 . Narda's proprietary techniques enable higher levels of microwave, digital and analog functional integration than is achievable...