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Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places and things, today expanded its best-in-class antenna tuning product portfolio with the addition of several new high performance solutions.

MaxLinear's purchase of Broadcom's and Microsemi's wireless infrastructure businesses gives MaxLinear more credibility in wireless infrastructure.

Inphi Corp. is selling its memory business to Rambus, which frees the company to focus on growth opportunities in optical telecommunications networks.

Skyworks Solutions announced that Huawei's newest flagship P9 and P9 Plus smartphones are being enabled by 10 Skyworks ICs, from highly integrated modules to analog control ICs.

As a result of numerous orders corresponding with the growth of terahertz frequency range measurements in the wafer test market, MPI Corp. has received industry wide acceptance of the TS150-THZ probe station as the standard for these complicated high frequency measurements. The TS150-THZ addresses the challenging test requirements of multiple emerging markets and applications, such as automotive radar, non-invasive imaging, defense, security and surveillance as well as short-range radar and high-speed 5G communication.

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. ("MACOM") announced the new MAAP-011161 and the MAAP-011193, two packaged linear power amplifiers designed specifically for use in point-to-point radios in cellular backhaul applications.

As the 200 mm wafer test market continues to expand, MPI Corp. is introducing a new fully automatic wafer probe system. The TS2500-RF addresses multiple production test market requirements which include radio frequency (RF) communication devices and discrete passive components.

Widespread deployment of LTE base stations in China drove an increase in RF GaN revenue of nearly 50 percent in 2015, reaching 60 percent of the total market, according to Strategy Analytics..

Guerrilla RF Inc., a leading provider of high performance MMICs, introduced new additions to the company’s family of high linearity gain blocks featuring a unique combination of simple-application schematic, flat gain and high compressed output power which operate from 50 MHz up to as high as 8 GHz.