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ON Semiconductor Corporation is acquiring and licensing millimeter wave technology developed by IBM’s Haifa, Israel research team. ON Semiconductor will use the technology for automotive radar applications. The acquisition includes staff, equipment, research facilities and IP that will form a new design center for ON Semiconductor in Haifa.

MaxLinear announced a baseband system on chip (SoC) for broadband wireless transmission systems. The MxL85110 is a full duplex, single carrier, FDD modem that provides a comprehensive processing chain from the various user IP interfaces to the analog baseband signals, including analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters.

Skyworks Solutions announced eight, 4 W power amplifiers (PA) for outdoor and indoor small cell base stations, covering the most popular frequency bands from 700 to 3800 MHz.

Skyworks Solutions Inc. introduced SkyOne® Ultra 3.0, a highly integrated front-end solution for premium mobile device and smartphone manufacturers. SkyOne® Ultra 3.0 supports all major carrier aggregation combinations, meets class 2 high power user equipment requirements, supports 2.5G, 3G and 4G handsets and covers more than 23 LTE bands.

At the 2017 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Qorvo's mobile products business announced two new RF front-end modules for mid-tier phones, four design wins in a "gigabit" smartphone and "the industry's first" 5G RF front-end.