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Freescale Semiconductor introduced two LDMOS RF power transistors that allow wireless base station amplifiers to cover all channels in an entire allocated frequency band. The high-efficiency transistors help reduce capital and operating expenditures, and their wide instantaneous bandwidth allows operators to increase network flexibility. Most of today’s amplifier systems...

Fujitsu Semiconductor America Inc. (FSA) announced that Hiroyuki Hojo has been named President and Chief Executive Officer effective April 1, 2011. He replaces Shinichi “James” Machida, who will return to Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. (FSL) in Japan as Corporate Vice President in June. Hojo joined the Fujitsu organization in September...

NXP Semiconductors has inaugurated the Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) in Pune, India, in association with the International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT). Located at I2IT Pune Campus, this Center of Excellence will provide unique infrastructure and collaboration of the Industry and academia. The center will foster the innovation...

The International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the annual conference and exhibition of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), will increase the number of student competitions this year, with an eye on amplifying both the volume and caliber of collegiate entrants. Due to the popularity of the annual events...

Siemens AG will increase its stake in the publicly listed Indian company Siemens Ltd. from 55.3 percent to 75 percent. During the offer period, which commenced on March 25, 2011 and closed on April 13, 2011, shareholders of Siemens Ltd. offered to sell Siemens AG a total of 29...

Endwave Corp. , a provider of high frequency RF MMIC devices and integrated subsystems, announced the release of a new sub-harmonically pumped mixer (2 x LO) MMIC. Designed and manufactured in cooperation with WIN Semiconductor Corp.'s 0.1 µm PHEMT process development, model EWM9002ZZ offers a broadband frequency performance of...