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Revenue for RF GaN devices increased by slightly more than 23 percent in 2016, and demand is expected to grow, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. Growth in defense applications, particularly radar, communications and EW, will offset flat revenue from the wireless infrastructure segment.

The AXIe Consortium announced a new specification, Optical Data Interface, suitable for high-speed instrumentation systems addressing challenging applications in 5G communications, mil/aero and advanced communication research. The AXIe Consortium was joined by Conduant Corporation, Guzik Technical Enterprises, Intel Corporation, Keysight Technologies, Samtec Incorporated and Xilinx in endorsing the standard and stating their plans to offer components or instrumentation products compliant with the new standard.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced the successful completion of the interoperability development tests (IoDT) of phase 2 of China’s IMT-2020 5G trials.

In collaboration with Filtronic Broadband, Plextek RFI has developed a multi-chip module to cover the European ‘Pioneer Band’ for millimetre wave 5G around 26 GHz.

Plasma Antennas today unveiled the mmWave Plasma Silicon Antenna (PSiAN); that offers huge improvements in performance for 5G base stations compared to the current generation of technology. Based on the company’s patented Plasma Silicon technology, the antenna reduces the cost of a 5G base station by up to 50% by eliminating phase shifters, reducing and consolidating amplification and reducing computation.