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RFMW Europe announces the addition of a new office in France. According to Peter Saxby, Managing Director – Europe, “We can now consider ourselves truly pan-European and we all look forward to helping RFMW and our suppliers meet the various challenges of RF and microwave component engineering and supply...

Microsemi Corp. , a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, announced a design guide for developing next-generation high voltage, high power systems based on the company's unique digital radio frequency (DRF) family of hybrid modules. These systems are used in applications including semiconductor...

Custom MMIC Design Services Inc. (CMDS) announced it was awarded a 2011 Army Achievement Award in recognition of its innovative work on high efficiency, low power, low noise MMIC amplifiers for SATCOM applications. Paul Blount, President and CEO of CMDS, accepted the award on behalf of the company at...

Custom MMIC has been awarded its second Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the United States Army to develop millimeter-wave, high linearity, high power amplifiers on Gallium Nitride (GaN) for satellite communication systems (SATCOM). “We are excited to be working with the...

RF Micro Devices Inc. unveiled the highly integrated RF6555 ZigBee® front-end module (FEM). The RF6555 is RFMD's newest ZigBee FEM and is optimized for smart energy/advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) applications providing utilities and consumers more control over how they monitor and save energy. ZigBee is a global low power...

GigOptix Inc. , a supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming, announced that at a special Endwave Corp. stockholders meeting, the stockholders voted to approve the acquisition of Endwave by GigOptix Inc. At the meeting, holders of more than 55 percent of the outstanding...

RF Micro Devices announced it has qualified its GaN1 power semiconductor process technology for 65 V operation. The high reliability power semiconductor process technology supports RFMD's GaN-based power semiconductor product designs and is also available to foundry customers through RFMD's Foundry Services business unit. Previously, RFMD's GaN1 power semiconductor...

STMicroelectronics and Circuits Multi Projets® (CMP) have announced that the CMOS 28 nm process from STMicroelectronics is now available for prototyping to universities, research labs and companies through the silicon brokerage services provided by CMP. The introduction of the 28 nm CMOS process builds on the successful collaboration that...