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At its annual Global Technology Conference, GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) announced that more than 20 clients, representing >$1 billion in design win revenue, are working with GF’s enhanced 45RFSOI platform for 5G/mmWave mobile and wireless infrastructure applications.

The SOI Industry Consortium announced awards to two luminaries of the semiconductor industry.  Jim Cable, chairman and CTO of pSemi, a Murata Co., and Herb Huang, CEO and GM of Ninbo Semiconductor received awards for their contributions to the advancement of RF-SOI.

NI announced new STS software enhancements that deliver significant improvements to the programming and debugging experience, test execution speed, parallel test efficiency and overall equipment efficiency for the NI Semiconductor Test System (STS).

T&M companies Rohde & Schwarz and Marvin Test Solutions have cooperated to create a unique turnkey solution suited for testing the beamforming ICs used in mmWave 5G and SatCom systems.

As detailed in a new report from Mobile Experts, the mmWave market for RF front-end components will grow to more than $1 billion by 2024, driven by smartphones, hotspots and fixed customer premises equipment.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) and Soitec announced the two companies have signed multiple long-term supply agreements for 300 mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. The agreements assure GF will have sufficient high volume wafer supply to meet the demand for its RF SOI, fully-depleted SOI (FD-SOI) and silicon photonics process platforms.

Infineon Technologies AG and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Infineon will acquire Cypress for US$23.85 per share in cash, corresponding to an enterprise value of €9 billion.