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Fujitsu announced the development of a 4.5 W/mm GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) power amplifier for use in W-Band (75 to 110 GHz) applications.

Technological innovation has created unprecedented demands upon the semiconductor industry. Manufacturing has lagged this demand both in terms of output and in quality due to a failure to properly leverage data. The future leaders of semi manufacturing will be those who embrace advance data analytics in both the manufacturing and the designing of increasingly sophisticated product. 

SemiGen, Inc. has purchased the former Micrometrics/Metelics fabrication facility in Londonderry, New Hampshire and will relocate operations from Manchester, New Hampshire to this location. The $2.5 million upgrade includes more than 20,000 square feet of lab and cleanroom space and much of the equipment that MicroMetrics/Metelics used for their RF diode business.

Skyworks has introduced a new product category of high power Bluetooth® power amplifiers for mobile applications, targeting Wi-Fi enabled smartphones, tablets and other portable devices.

Custom MMIC announced a new addition to their growing line of high performance MMIC doublers, the CMD226N3 broadband frequency doubler that has an input range from 7 to 11 GHz.

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has received initial approvals from the government to set up a Rs 3,000 crore (approximately $467 million) foundry to produce GaN.

“The revolutionary transition toward 5G implementation in the next five years is dramatically reshaping the RF technology landscape," announces Zhen Zong, technology & market analyst from Yole Développement (Yole).

Yole Développement just released a comprehensive report on the RF power device market and here are the highlights from their article. They expect the market to recover in coming years due to increasing demand for telecom base station upgrades and small cell implementations. Overall market revenue could potentially increase 75% by the end of 2022, posting a CAGR of 9.8% from 2016-2022.

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) announced a highly-programmable clock generator and jitter attenuator IC featuring less than 200 fs of phase noise, providing valuable system design margin for 10 Gbps interfaces in wireline and wireless communication networks.