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Avago Technologies has signed a Manufacturers Representative agreement for the Israeli market with Semix Engineering & Marketing Ltd. Avago is providing leading electronics companies in Israel with a wide range of products, including RF and microwave semiconductors, fiber optics, optocouplers, LEDs and encoders. The agreement is intended to help...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the appointment of Peter Kelly as Executive Vice President, Operations. He joins Chris Belden reporting to Rick Clemmer and will share responsibility with Belden for managing the overall operations of NXP. “The global operations organization is of key importance to the success of NXP, especially...

Semtech Corp. , a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, and Virtual Extension (Beit Dagan, Israel), a mesh wireless networks provider, announced the expansion of their wireless mesh network platform to include a new, ultra-high transmission range (Tx) power chipset that brings a new level of performance to a...

Texas Instruments has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Freescale Semiconductor and NXP Semiconductors claimed the second and third spots in the company’s most recent evaluation of worldwide IEEE 802.15.4 integrated circuit vendors. The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced a new RF transceiver that addresses the ARIB STD-T96 protocol for wireless data transmission. Established by Japan’s ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses), the ARIB STD-T96 is specified for the automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by low-power radio equipment....

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced it is proudly celebrating its 20th anniversary with commemorative events planned at company locations throughout the year. RF Micro Devices was incorporated on February 27, 1991, and held its initial public offering on June 3, 1997. From its earliest days, RFMD has been...

Xilinx and Nujira announced the first successful integration of envelope tracking (ET) technology with a third-party digital pre-distortion (DPD) solution running on an FPGA. The two companies have delivered a reference design for a cellular base station PA circuit with Nujira’s Coolteq.h envelope tracking modulator linearized by a Xilinx...

The BGA28xx series of gain blocks is a recent addition to NXP ’s portfolio of RF products. These gain blocks offer best-in-class linearity versus current consumption. Optimized for satellite LNBs, the BGA28xx products are also well suited for general purpose applications. These devices join other NXP discrete and integrated...

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc., an RF solutions supplier and technology innovator, will ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell on Friday, February 25, 2011. “We recently announced record revenue and earnings for 2010, our 25th anniversary. There’s much enthusiasm for our new opportunities in high growth markets such as smartphones,...

Harris Corp. , an international communications and information technology company, has named Julio Villafane Managing Director of the Caribbean/Latin America region for its RF Communications business. In this role, Villafane will provide strategic direction and day-to-day management of all staff in the region, overseeing the regional headquarters in Miami...