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Ampleon announced details of its participation at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2018 held in Philadelphia, Pa.

Peraso Technologies Inc. is pleased to strengthen their partnership with IgniteNet to revolutionize the fixed wireless marketplace. With Peraso's advanced X710 WiGig phased array chipset, designed specifically for the wireless infrastructure market, IgniteNet continues to offer first-to-market, super high performance base stations and CPEs that enable ISPs to deliver multi-gigabit connectivity both quickly and cost-effectively.

Strong demand in Wi-Fi, IoT and defense, coupled with improving demand from China's handset manufacturers, grew Qorvo’s Q4 revenue to $665 million, up 3.5 percent compared to last years’s quarter. For the full year, Qorvo reported just under $3 billion in revenue, down 2 percent from fiscal 2017.

This week, IDT reported 2018 fiscal year revenue of $843 million, 16 percent growth above 2017. Fourth quarter revenue was $225 million, up 4 percent sequentially and 28 percent year-over-year. Among the initiatives to fuel growth, IDT is developing millimeter wave beamforming products for 24, 28 and 39 GHz 5G systems.

MACOM announced it received the first volume production orders for its GaN on Si power devices. The orders are for 50 to 270 W devices for the 2.4 and 3.5 GHz cellular bands.

Apple said it shipped 52.2 million iPhones in fiscal Q2, 2.9 percent more than the prior year’s quarter. The company reported revenue of $61.1 billion, up 16 percent year-over-year.

Wolfspeed’s Q3 FY18 revenue grew 16 percent sequentially to $81.9 million, which was 46 percent above the prior year’s quarter. The power RF business acquired from Infineon on 6 March is hurt by the export ban to ZTE; ZTE contributed approximately 20 percent of the revenue in the RF power business in Q3.

ZTE issued a statement responding to the U.S. Department of Commerce denying export privileges to the company. The DoC action prevents U.S. companies from exporting products to ZTE for seven years. ZTE said "The Denial Order will not only severely impact the survival and development of ZTE, but will also cause damages to all partners of ZTE including a large number of U.S. companies."

Guerrilla RF, a supplier of MMICs for the wireless infrastructure market, announced the closing of a $3.8 million Series E funding round — a combination of equity and debt — with investments from multiple angel investors.

Qorvo and Lockheed Martin (LM) have teamed up for the last decade to create trusted microelectronics for the U.S. military’s top systems. Read a case study: the AN/TPQ-53 counterfire radar system.