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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.

ABI Research forecasts markets for pulsed RF power devices up to 4 GHz will show continued moderate growth over the next five years and exceed $200 million by 2022.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the industry’s highest power transistor for 915 MHz applications. The MRF13750H delivers 750 W continuous wave (CW), 50 percent higher than comparable products available on the market.

Custom MMIC announced an expanded collaboration with X-Microwave LLC, developers of a modular/drop-in simulation, prototyping and production system for solderless and reconfigurable RF/microwave circuits up to 67 GHz. The X-MWblock^TM system enables efficient and expedient microwave and mmWave circuit development and testing, using industry grade non-linear online simulation tools.

WIN Semiconductors has developed a GaAs PIN diode MMIC process for high frequency switch and limiter applications. The 3 µm i-layer PIN diodes have near constant junction capacitance through 50 GHz, low insertion loss and excellent isolation for high frequency switch applications.

After completing the acquisition of Linear Technology, Analog Devices announced the leadership team for the combined company. Greg Henderson, VP of ADI’s RF and microwave business, was promoted to senior VP responsible for the automotive, communications and aerospace and defense businesses of the combined company.