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Palomar Technologies announced new epoxy die attach capabilities for silver sintering. The silver jet dispensing process is an enhancement to the already wide breadth of Palomar Technologies' solutions for the telecom and datacom markets.

Targeting 5G, Fujitsu recently announced a prototype 28 GHz phased array antenna that provides four independent, steerable beams delivering 2.5 Gbps.

GlobalFoundries’ 9HP, 90 nm SiGe process is now available for prototyping on the company’s 300 mm wafer fab (Fab 10) in East Fishkill, New York. Process qualification and design kits are planned for completion during the second quarter of 2019.

Accel-RF, a long-time supplier of test systems for reliability testing, was awarded a SBIR follow-on contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory to continue development of millimeter wave accelerated life test systems at V- and W-Band.

Sanan Integrated Circuit Co. Ltd. (Sanan IC) announced it has attained two additional certifications for its manufacturing management systems: automotive quality management and IT security.

Skyworks Solutions Inc. announced that Semtech is leveraging its newest suite of low-power, wide-area network (LPWAN) products.

EpiGaN has selected Aixtron’s G5+C MOCVD system to boost its manufacturing capability of large diameter GaN on Si and GaN on SiC epiwafers.

MACOM and Infineon have settled their legal fight over ownership of GaN on Si intellectual property (IP). In an unexpected conclusion, MACOM now owns the IP and has licensed it back to Infineon — although Infineon can't sell production quantities of RF GaN on Si base station products until 2021.

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased during the third quarter of 2018, surpassing record second quarter 2018 area shipments to set another all-time high, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.