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Roberto Gilardoni, process engineer at Hesse & Knipps Inc. , will present a paper on “Ribbon Bonding for High Frequency Applications: Advantages of Ribbon Bonding and the Impact on the Microwave Industry” at the International Microwave Symposium to be held in Atlanta, GA, from June 15–20. The presentation will...

Continuing to push the boundaries of high power radio frequency (RF) technology, Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled the world’s first 50 V LDMOS RF power transistor line-up for L-band radar applications. The line-up is ideal for a wide range of high power RF applications including air traffic management and long-range...

With LTE standards rapidly evolving, Agilent has released a new application note: "3GPP Long Term Evolution: System Overview, Product Development and Test Challenges."

Ceralta Technologies Inc. was formed by the investment group that originally owned TRU Corp. by merging TRU into Ceralta and subsequently acquiring Sage Laboratories Inc. . Both TRU and Sage are now wholly owned subsidiaries of Ceralta. Ceralta’s mission is to creatively apply radio frequency (RF), microwave and digital...

Jazz Semiconductor announces a PA Design Library for its 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS process, reducing design cycle time by providing validated PA cells ready for use with a custom power cell design flow. Combined with Jazz’s rich library of high quality passive devices including thick inductors and high density MiM...

Mimix Broadband Inc. introduces a QFN packaged GaAs MMIC linear power amplifier with +39 dBm OIP3 and 26 dB small-signal gain. This power amplifier, identified as XP1035-QH, covers 5.9 to 9.5 GHz and includes an integrated temperature compensated on-chip power detector. The amplifier comes in an RoHS compliant, industry...

Building on their leadership in TD-SCDMA, NXP Semiconductors and T3G Technologies have announced that the next-generation 3G cellular system solution T3G7208 is now commercially available to the Chinese market. TD-SCDMA services are now in commercial trial across eight cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The Nexperia cellular...

Continuing to push the boundaries of high power radio frequency (RF) technology, Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled the world’s first 50 V LDMOS RF power transistor line-up for L-band radar applications. The line-up is ideal for a wide range of high power RF applications including air traffic management and long-range...

The Strategy Analytics RF and Wireless Components research service released, “PA Market Growth of 12.6 Percent Helps Propel TriQuint to Third in Share,” examining changes in the cellphone power amplifier industry and in vendor market share. “The growth of cellphone shipments in 2007 coupled with consolidation boosted the sales...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, announced several new front-end solutions supporting Qualcomm ’s newest code division multiple access (CDMA) and HSDPA enhanced data for GSM evolution (HEDGE) reference platforms: • The SKY77166 – a 450 megahertz (MHz)...