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Custom MMIC commemorated its recent office and lab expansion with a ribbon cutting ceremony, with U.S. Congresswoman Lori Trahan cutting the ribbon and congratulating company employees on the success of the 13-year-old firm.

Apple reported fiscal Q3 revenue of $53.8 billion — just 1 percent year-over-year growth. All segments grew except for iPhone; its revenue was down 12 percent from last year's quarter. CEO Tim Cook said that was an improvement over the 17 percent year-over-year decline in Q2.

National Instruments (NI) announced the appointment of Ritu Favre as senior vice president and general manager of the semiconductor business.

Custom MMIC has awarded scholarships to three more young women, the second year of the company’s Women in Engineering Scholarship program. The scholarships recognize young women who “personify academic excellence in the fields of math, science and engineering” and plan to pursue degrees in those fields.

Adding to its 5G portfolio, Skyworks has introduced an antenna aperture tuning switch, the SKY5™−9269-702LF, a SP4T switch covering 600 MHz to 6 GHz designed for LTE Advanced Pro and 5G mobile platforms.

JETCOOL Technologies unveiled a new approach to cooling computer processors and other electronics at the 2019 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS2019), winning the MIT spin-off the title of Next Top Startup.

On August 1, Arralis Technologies plans to open an office in the U.S., located in Daytona Beach, Florida, at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Research Park.

Modelithics has completed several lab upgrades to improve and expand its measurement capability and characterization services. The upgrades bring enhanced measurement capabilities to many of Modelithics’ characterization services, including IV, S-parameter, X-parameter, load-pull, impedance and noise measurements.

In our latest industry chat, market analyst Earl Lum and I sat down to compare notes about the wireless industry and what caught our attention at #IMS2019. Listen to our conversation on this episode of the Microwave Journal podcast.